Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (DFARS Case 2010-006)

Summary:

FAC 2005-54 adopts as final, without change, an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement the Department of Labor (DOL) regulations that implemented the Executive Order (E.O.), Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws

Supplementary Information:

I.  Background

DoD, GSA, and NASA published an interim rule in the Federal Register at 75 FR 77723 on December 13, 2010, to implement E.O. 13496, Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws, as implemented by the DOL. The E.O. requires contractors to display a notice for employees of their rights under Federal labor laws, and the DOL has determined that the notice shall include employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act. Public comments were due on or before February 11, 2011. Three respondents submitted nine comments on the interim rule.

II.  Discussion and Analysis of the Public Comments

The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (the Councils) reviewed the public comments in thedevelopment of the final rule. A discussion of the comments and the changes made to the rule as the result of those comments are provided here.

Dates:

The Effective Date for this final rule is 2 November 2011.

Click here to read the entire Federal Register notice for this rule.