[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5217 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5217

 To provide adequate sanctions for unfair labor practices resulting in 
                      the discharge of employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2000

  Mr. Meehan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide adequate sanctions for unfair labor practices resulting in 
                      the discharge of employees.

    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 ``Effective Labor Law Sanctions Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. LABOR RELATIONS REMEDIES.

    (a) 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 as a result of an unfair labor practice, the 
Board in such order shall (1) award back pay in an amount equal to 3 
times the employee's wage rate at the time of the unfair labor practice 
and (2) notify such employee of such 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 Fair Labor Organizing Act.''.
    (b) 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 any 
employer to discharge an employee for exercising rights protected under 
the National Labor Relations Act.
    ``(d) An employee whose discharge is determined by the National 
Labor Relations Board under section 10(c) of the National Labor 
Relations Act to be as a result of an unfair labor practice under 
section 8 of such Act may file a civil action in any district court of 
the United States, without respect to the amount in controversy, to 
recover punitive damages or if actionable, in any State court to 
recover damages based on a wrongful discharge.''.
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