Proposed Rule Would Expand Information Employers Must Report On Employee Union Activities

On September 13, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards issued a proposed form revision to its LM-10 Employer Report.

If the changes are finalized, employers would be required to file Form LM-10 to disclose certain payments, expenditures, agreements, and arrangements related to workers who exercise their rights to organize or collectively bargain or obtain information on employee activities in connection with an ongoing labor dispute with the employer.

Changes also would require the disclosure of any payments made to a labor organization and would require filers to report whether those payments concerned employees performing work on a federal contract or subcontract.

According to the Federal Register notice, available here, the proposed revision “would not change which employers are required to file Form LM-10; it would require filers to provide an additional item of identifying information.”

The DOL invited the public to comment on the proposed changes. Those submission are due by October 13.

This policy change was recommended by the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, which called for the federal government to “use longstanding authority to leverage the federal government’s purchasing and spending power to support workers who are organizing and pro-worker employers.”