---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 2107"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "2107"
heading: "Authority to prescribe regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/2107"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification"
---

# §2107. Authority to prescribe regulations

- (a) The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this chapter. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, include interpretative regulations describing the methods by which [employers](/usc/29/2101.md?p=a-1) may provide for appropriate service of notice as required by this chapter.
- (b) The mailing of notice to an employee’s last known address or inclusion of notice in the employee’s paycheck will be considered acceptable methods for fulfillment of the [employer](/usc/29/2101.md?p=a-1)’s obligation to give notice to each affected employee under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–379, § 8, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Aug. 4, 1988, except that the authority of the Secretary of Labor under this section is effective on Aug. 4, 1988, see section 11 of Pub. L. 100–379, set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.