§2623 Employment Effects

Summary

The Administrator must keep checking how rules or orders under sections 2603, 2604, or 2605, or requirements under sections 2604 or 2605, might affect jobs. This includes looking for job losses, layoffs, or threatened plant closures. Any worker or the worker’s representative can ask the Administrator in writing to investigate a discharge, layoff, or other harms they say came from those rules or requirements. The request must explain the reasons and be signed. After a proper request, the Administrator must investigate and, if people ask, hold public hearings unless the Administrator decides within 45 days there is no good reason for hearings. If hearings happen, the requester and anyone named must get at least five days’ notice, and the worker and employer must provide relevant information. When done, the Administrator must publish findings and any recommendations. The Administrator is not required to change or cancel any rule or order.