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S 1166 113th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Labor-management relations

Representation Fairness Restoration Act

Introduced: June 13, 2013 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps
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Passed House
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To President
Became law
Jun 13, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jun 13, 2013
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Representation Fairness Restoration Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to revise requirements for determination by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) of an appropriate bargaining unit before an election of collective bargaining representation. (In effect reverses the NLRB's August 26, 2011, decision in Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation of Mobile and its June 22, 2011, rulemaking regarding proposed changes to procedures involving the election of collective bargaining representation.)

Replaces the current restriction in the meaning of collective bargaining unit to employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision. Requires the NLRB, instead, to determine a unit as appropriate for collective bargaining if it consists of employees that share a sufficient community of interest. Specifies factors the NLRB must consider when making such determinations.

Prohibits exclusion of employees from the unit unless the group's interests are sufficiently distinct from those of other employees to warrant the establishment of a separate unit.

What's happening now June 13, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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