---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 652.9"
title: "20"
number: "652.9"
heading: "Labor disputes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/652.9"
---

# §652.9. Labor disputes.

- (a) State agencies may not make a job referral on job orders which will aid directly or indirectly in the filling of a job opening which is vacant because the former occupant is on strike, or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or the filling of which is otherwise an issue in a labor dispute involving a work stoppage.
- (b) Written notification must be provided to all applicants referred to jobs not at issue in the labor dispute that a labor dispute exists in the employing establishment and that the job to which the applicant is being referred is not at issue in the dispute.
- (c) When a job order is received from an employer reportedly involved in a labor dispute involving a work stoppage, State agencies must:
  - (1) Verify the existence of the labor dispute and determine its significance with respect to each vacancy involved in the job order; and
  - (2) **Notify all potentially affected staff concerning the labor dispute.**
- (d) State agencies must resume full referral services when they have been notified of, and verified with the employer and workers' representative(s), that the labor dispute has been terminated.
- (e) State agencies must notify the regional office in writing of the existence of labor disputes which:
  - (1) Result in a work stoppage at an establishment involving a significant number of workers; or
  - (2) **Involve multi-establishment employers with other establishments outside the reporting State.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. chapter 4B; 38 U.S.C. chapters 41 and 42; Secs. 189 and 503, Public Law 113-128, 128 Stat. 1425 (Jul. 22, 2014).

### Source

Source: 81 FR 56337, Aug. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted.