[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1978.100]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR--(CONTINUED)
 
PART 1978--RULES FOR IMPLEMENTING SECTION 405 OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1982 (STAA)--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B--Rules of Procedure
 
Sec. 1978.100  Purpose and scope.

       Complaints, Investigations, Findings and Preliminary Orders


    (a) This subpart implements the procedural aspects of section 405 of 
the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, 49 U.S.C. 2305, which 
provides for employee protection from discrimination because the 
employee has engaged in protected activity pertaining to commercial 
motor vehicle safety and health matters.
    (b) Procedures are established by this subpart pursuant to the 
statutory provision set forth above for the expeditious handling of 
complaints of discrimination made by employees, or persons acting on 
their behalf. These rules, together with those rules set forth at 29 CFR 
part 18, set forth the procedures for submission of complaints under 
section 405, investigations, issuance of findings and preliminary 
orders, objections thereto, litigation before administrative law judges, 
post-hearing administrative review, withdrawals and settlements, 
judicial review and enforcement, and deferral to other forums.