---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 143"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "143"
heading: "Saving provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/143"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §143. Saving provisions


Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual [employee](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) to render labor or service without his consent, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of his labor by an individual [employee](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual [employee](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) of such labor or service, without his consent; nor shall the quitting of labor by an [employee](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) or [employees](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) in good faith because of abnormally dangerous conditions for work at the place of employment of such [employee](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) or [employees](/usc/29/142.md?p=3) be deemed a [strike](/usc/29/142.md?p=2) under this chapter.


## Source credit

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, § 502, 61 Stat. 162.)