Effective July 1, 2006, 29 C.F.R. §458.4 was added to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Standards of Conduct regulations governing federal sector unions. The regulation imposes three basic requirements on federal sector unions: • Labor organizations must inform current members about their rights under the standards of conduct provisions at least once every three years. • Labor organizations must inform new members who join of their rights within 90 days of their becoming new members. • National and local labor organizations that have a web site must provide a link to the Statement of Union Member Rights and Officer Responsibilities on the DOL’s web site or to the labor organization’s own statement. The regulation does not require labor organizations to create web sites. NTEU National provides the written notices required by the first two requirements. Accordingly, chapters do not need to take any actions to comply with those two new obligations. The third requirement, however, applies to any NTEU chapter that already has a web site, or elects to create a web site in the future. Those chapters must provide a link on their web sites to the statement of rights and obligations on NTEU’s web site at nteu.org or provide a link to a comparable statement on the DOL’s web site. With the exception of the introductory paragraph, the statement provided on NTEU’s web site is identical to the statement on the DOL web site. The introductory paragraph has been modified to inform employees that they have a statutory right to join a union and that union members must exhaust their union remedies before filing a complaint with DOL. Chapters can access the statement by visiting this link (nteu.org/memberrights.aspx) or by visiting the NTEU web page and clicking on the button in the left hand column entitled “Member Rights.” Because NTEU has, as permitted by the regulation, included additional, useful information not found in the DOL web site notice, I recommend that chapters satisfy their obligation by providing a link to the Statement of Member Rights and Officer Responsibilities on NTEU’s web site. If you have any questions regarding how to establish the link from the chapter web site to the NTEU Statement of Member Rights and Officer Responsibilities on the NTEU National web site, please contact Imran Khan, NTEU Web Master, via e-mail at [email protected].
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:11:32 +0000
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