[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR22.101-1]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 22_APPLICATION OF LABOR LAWS TO GOVERNMENT ACQUISITIONS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart 22.1_Basic Labor Policies
 
Sec.  22.101-1  General.

    (a) Agencies shall maintain sound relations with industry and labor 
to ensure (1) prompt receipt of information involving labor relations 
that may adversely affect the Government acquisition process and (2) 
that the Government obtains needed supplies and services without delay. 
All matters regarding labor relations shall be handled in accordance 
with agency procedures.
    (b)(1) Agencies shall remain impartial concerning any dispute 
between labor and contractor management and

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not undertake the conciliation, mediation, or arbitration of a labor 
dispute. To the extent practicable, agencies should ensure that the 
parties to the dispute use all available methods for resolving the 
dispute, including the services of the National Labor Relations Board, 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the National Mediation Board 
and other appropriate Federal, State, local, or private agencies.
    (2) For use of project labor agreements, see 36.202(d).
    (c) Agencies should, when practicable, exchange information 
concerning labor matters with other affected agencies to ensure a 
uniform Government approach concerning a particular plant or labor-
management dispute.
    (d) Agencies should take other actions concerning labor relations 
problems to the extent consistent with their acquisition 
responsibilities. For example, agencies should--
    (1) Notify the agency responsible for conciliation, mediation, 
arbitration, or other related action of the existence of any labor 
dispute affecting or threatening to affect agency acquisition programs;
    (2) Furnish to the parties to a dispute factual information 
pertinent to the dispute's potential or actual adverse impact on these 
programs, to the extent consistent with security regulations; and
    (3) Seek a voluntary agreement between management and labor, 
notwithstanding the continuance of the dispute, to permit uninterrupted 
acquisition of supplies and services. This shall only be done, however, 
if the attempt to obtain voluntary agreement does not involve the agency 
in the merits of the dispute and only after consultation with the agency 
responsible for conciliation, mediation, arbitration, or other related 
action.
    (e) The head of the contracting activity may designate programs or 
requirements for which it is necessary that contractors be required to 
notify the Government of actual or potential labor disputes that are 
delaying or threaten to delay the timely contract performance (see 
22.103-5(a)).

[48 FR 42258, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 27415, May 16, 2001]