Publication of the Department of Labor’s final revisions to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), requiring employers and others to report arrangements, receipts, and expenditures derived from providing services defined as persuasive activities, has been delayed until March 2014, according to the DOL’s latest regulatory agenda. The proposed revisions to the LMRDA would change reporting obligations (to the DOL) significantly for companies and their consultants, including law firms that advise employers where an object thereof, directly or indirectly, is to persuade employees to exercise or not to exercise, or persuade employees as to the manner of exercising, the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. For more on this development, see DOL’s Rule Redefining LMRDA ‘Advice Exception’ and Expanding Types of Activities Considered Persuasive and Reportable Expected in March 2014.
