Title 29—Labor--Volume 1
PART 406—REPORTING BY LABOR RELATIONS CONSULTANTS AND OTHER PERSONS, CERTAIN AGREEMENTS WITH EMPLOYERS
§ 406.1   Definitions.
As used in this part, the term:
(a) Corresponding principal officers means any person or persons performing or authorized to perform, principal executive functions corresponding to those of president and treasurer of any entity engaged in whole or in part in the performance of the activities described in section 203(b) of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
(b) Fiscal year means the calendar year or other period of 12 consecutive calendar months, on the basis of which financial accounts are kept by a person. Where a person designates a new fiscal year prior to the expiration of a previously established fiscal year period, the resultant period of less than 12 consecutive calendar months, and thereafter the newly established fiscal year, shall in that order constitute the fiscal years.
(c) Undertake means not only the performing of activities, but also the agreeing to perform them or to have them performed.
(d) A direct or indirect party to an agreement or arrangement includes persons who have secured the services of another or of others in connection with an agreement or arrangement of the type referred to in § 406.2 as well as persons who have undertaken activities at the behest of another or of others with knowledge or reason to believe that they are undertaken as a result of an agreement or arrangement between an employer and any other person, except bona fide regular officers, supervisors or employees of their employer to the extent to which they undertook to perform services as such bona fide regular officers, supervisors or employees of their employer.
§ 406.2   Agreement and activities report.
(a) Every person who as a direct or indirect party to any agreement or arrangement with an employer undertakes, pursuant to such agreement or arrangement, any activities where an object thereof is, directly or indirectly, (1) to persuade employees to exercise or not to exercise, or to persuade employees as to the manner of exercising, the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing; or, (2) to supply an employer with information concerning the activities of employees or a labor organization in connection with a labor dispute involving such employer, except information for use solely in conjunction with an administrative or arbitral proceeding or a criminal or civil judicial proceeding; shall, as prescribed by the regulations in this part, file a report with the Office of Labor-Management Standards, and one copy thereof, on Form LM-20 1 entitled “Agreement and Activities Report (required of persons, including labor relations consultants and other individuals and organizations)” in the detail required by such form and the instructions accompanying such form and constituting a part thereof. The report shall be filed within 30 days after entering into an agreement or arrangement of the type described in this section. If there is any change in the information reported (other than that required by Item C. 10, (c) of the Form), it must be filed in a report clearly marked “Amended Report” within 30 days of the change.
1 Filed as part of the original document.
(b) The report shall be signed by the president and treasurer or corresponding principal officers of the reporting person. If the report is filed by an individual in his own behalf, it need only bear his signature.
§ 406.3   Receipts and disbursements report.
(a) Every person who, as a direct or indirect party to any agreement or arrangement, undertakes any activities of the type described in § 406.2 pursuant to such agreement or arrangement and who, as a result of such agreement or arrangement made or received any payment during his fiscal year, shall, as prescribed by the regulations in this part, file a report and one copy thereof, with the Office of Labor-Management Standards, on Form LM-21 1 entitled “Receipts and Disbursements Report (required of persons, including labor relations consultants, other individuals and organizations)”, in the detail required by such form and the instructions accompanying such form and constituting a part thereof. The report shall be filed within 90 days after the end of such person's fiscal year during which payments were made or received as a result of such an agreement or arrangement.
(b) The report shall be signed by the president and treasurer or corresponding principal officers of the reporting person. If the report is filed by an individual in his own behalf, it need only bear his signature.
§ 406.4   Terminal report.
(a) Every person required to file a report pursuant to the provisions of this part who during his fiscal year loses his identity as a reporting entity through merger, consolidation, dissolution, or otherwise shall within 30 days of the effective date thereof or of the effective date of this section, whichever is later, file a terminal report, and one copy thereof, with the Office of Labor-Management Standards, on Form LM-21 signed by the president and treasurer or corresponding principal officers immediately prior to the time of the person's loss of reporting identity (or by the person himself if he is an individual), together with a statement of the effective date of termination or loss of reporting identity, and if the latter, the name and mailing address of the entity into which the person reporting has been merged, consolidated or otherwise absorbed.
(b) For purposes of the report referred to in paragraph (a) of this section, the period covered thereby shall be the portion of the reporting person's fiscal year ending on the effective date of the termination or loss of identity.
§ 406.5   Persons excepted from filing reports.
Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to require:
(a) Any person to file a report under this part unless he was a direct or indirect party to an agreement or arrangement of the kind described in § 406.2;
(b) Any person to file a report covering the services of such person by reason of his (1) giving or agreeing to give advice to an employer; or (2) representing or agreeing to represent an employer before any court, administrative agency, or tribunal of arbitration; or (3) engaging or agreeing to engage in collective bargaining on behalf of an employer with respect to wages, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment or the negotiation of an agreement or any question arising thereunder;
(c) Any regular officer, or employee of an employer to file a report in connection with services rendered as such regular officer, supervisor or employee to such employer;
(d) An attorney who is a member in good standing of the bar of any State, to include in any report required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of this part any information which was lawfully communicated to such attorney by any of his clients in the course of a legitimate attorney-client relationship.
§ 406.6   Relation of section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act to this part.
While nothing contained in section 203 of the Act shall be construed as an amendment to, or modification of the rights protected by, section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended (61 Stat. 142; 29 U.S.C. 158 (c)), activities protected by such section of the said Act are not for that reason exempted from the reporting requirements of this part and, if otherwise subject to such reporting requirements, are required to be reported. Consequently, information required to be included in Forms LM-20 and 21 must be reported regardless of whether that information relates to activities which are protected by section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
§ 406.7   Personal responsibility of signatories of reports.
Each individual required to file a report under this part shall be personally responsible for the filing of such report and for any statement contained therein which he knows to be false.
§ 406.8   Maintenance and retention of records.
Every person required to file any report under this part shall maintain records on the matters required to be reported which will provide in sufficient detail the necessary basic information and data from which the documents filed with the Office of Labor-Management Standards may be verified, explained or clarified, and checked for accuracy and completeness, and shall include vouchers, worksheets, receipts and applicable resolutions, and shall keep such records available for examination for a period of not less than five years after the filing of the documents based on the information which they contain.
§ 406.9   Publication of reports required by this part.
Inspection and examination of any report or other document filed as required by this part, and the furnishing by the Office of Labor-Management Standards of copies thereof to any person requesting them, shall be governed by part 70 of this title.
§ 406.10   OMB control number.
The collecting of information requirements in this part have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget and assigned OMB control number 1245-0003.