Title 29, LaborRelease 119-102
§438 Rules and Regulations; Simplified Reports
Title 29 › CHAPTER 11 — LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE PROCEDURE › SUBCHAPTER III — REPORTING BY LABOR ORGANIZATIONS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS, AND EMPLOYERS › § 438
Summary
The Secretary can make, change, or cancel rules about how required reports must look and be published, including reports about trusts unions are involved in, to stop people from avoiding the reporting rules. He must allow simpler reports for small unions or employers when full reports would be too burdensome, but he can revoke that after investigation and a hearing.
Full Legal Text
Title 29, §438
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The Secretary shall have authority to issue, amend, and rescind rules and regulations prescribing the form and publication of reports required to be filed under this subchapter and such other reasonable rules and regulations (including rules prescribing reports concerning trusts in which a labor organization is interested) as he may find necessary to prevent the circumvention or evasion of such reporting requirements. In exercising his power under this section the Secretary shall prescribe by general rule simplified reports for labor organizations or employers for whom he finds that by virtue of their size a detailed report would be unduly burdensome, but the Secretary may revoke such provision for simplified forms of any labor organization or employer if he determines, after such investigation as he deems proper and due notice and opportunity for a hearing, that the purposes of this section would be served thereby.
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Citation
29 U.S.C. § 438
Title 29, Labor
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102