---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 528"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "528"
heading: "Criminal contempt"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/528"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §528. Criminal contempt


No [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) shall be punished for any criminal contempt allegedly committed outside the immediate presence of the court in connection with any civil action prosecuted by the [Secretary](/usc/29/402.md?p=p) or any other [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) in any court of the United States under the provisions of this chapter unless the facts constituting such criminal contempt are established by the verdict of the jury in a proceeding in the [district court of the United States](/usc/29/402.md?p=r), which jury shall be chosen and empaneled in the manner prescribed by the law governing trial juries in criminal prosecutions in the district courts of the United States.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 608, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)