Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73not60

§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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Gives the Secretary the power to make, change, or cancel rules about what reports must be filed and how they are published, including reports about trusts that involve a labor organization. The Secretary must create simpler report forms for unions or employers when full reports would be too hard because of their size, but can take away the simpler form after investigation and after giving notice and a chance for a hearing if doing so better serves the law's goals.

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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60