[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 36 (Thursday, March 26, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1556-H1557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FAIRNESS FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEES ACT

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, the Fairness for Small Business and 
Employees Act will be considered by the House today. Title I of this 
bill makes it clear that an employer does not have to hire someone who 
is not a bona fide applicant. In other words, a job applicant's primary 
purpose in seeking the job must be to work for the employer, not for 
someone else.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3246 was drafted after careful examination of the 
best way to protect employers, while not upsetting the principles of 
the National Labor Relations Act. It addresses the worst examples of 
salting in which people who have no intention of really working for an 
employer are simply filling jobs and filing charges to disrupt the 
employer's operation, resulting in lost productivity and thousands of 
dollars in legal fees to defend weak allegations.
  This bill addresses the problems which occur when someone applies for

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a job in a nonunion workplace for the primary purpose of disrupting the 
workplace and furthering the union agenda. I hope my colleagues will 
vote for H.R. 3246.

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