[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1553 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1553

  To amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Labor Management 
 Relations Act, 1947, to permit additional remedies in certain unfair 
             labor practice cases, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 18 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

   Mr. Simon introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Labor Management 
 Relations Act, 1947, to permit additional remedies in certain unfair 
             labor practice cases, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Labor Relations Remedies Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. BOARD REMEDIES.

    Section 10(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
160(c)) is amended by inserting after the fourth sentence the following 
new sentence: ``If the Board finds that an employee was discharged in 
violation of this Act, the Board in such order shall (1) award back pay 
in an amount equal to three times the employee's wage rate at the time 
of the unfair labor practice and (2) notify such employee of the 
employee's right to sue for punitive damages and damages with respect 
to a wrongful discharge under section 303 of the Labor Management 
Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 187), as amended by the Labor Relations 
Remedies Act of 1993.''.

SEC. 3. COURT REMEDIES.

    Section 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 
187), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(c) It shall be unlawful, for purposes of this section, for an 
employer to discharge an employee for exercising rights protected under 
the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158).
    ``(d) An employee whose discharge is determined by the National 
Labor Relations Board under section 10(c) to be a violation of this Act 
may sue therefore in any district court of the United States without 
respect to the amount in controversy, or in any other court having 
jurisdiction over the parties to recover compensatory and punitive 
damages in addition to the back pay ordered by the Board.
    ``(e) Nothing contained in section 8 or section 10 of the National 
Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158), or in this section shall limit the 
rights and remedies under any State or Federal law or before any court 
or other tribunal of an employee discharged by an employer.''.

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