---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 2619"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "2619"
heading: "Notice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/2619"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Family and Medical Leave"
  - "Subchapter I — General Requirements for Leave"
---

# §2619. Notice

- (a) **In general—** Each [employer](/usc/29/2611.md?p=4-A) shall post and keep posted, in conspicuous places on the premises of the [employer](/usc/29/2611.md?p=4-A) where notices to [employees](/usc/29/2611.md?p=3) and applicants for employment are customarily posted, a notice, to be prepared or approved by the [Secretary](/usc/29/2611.md?p=10), setting forth excerpts from, or summaries of, the pertinent provisions of this subchapter and information pertaining to the filing of a charge.
- (b) **Penalty—** Any [employer](/usc/29/2611.md?p=4-A) that willfully violates this section may be assessed a civil money penalty not to exceed $100 for each separate offense.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–3, title I, § 109, Feb. 5, 1993, 107 Stat. 19.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Feb. 5, 1993, except that, in the case of collective bargaining agreements in effect on that effective date, section applicable on the earlier of (1) the date of termination of such agreement, or (2) the date that occurs 12 months after Feb. 5, 1993, see section 405(b) of Pub. L. 103–3, set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.