[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1978.100]

[Page 197]
 
                             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.




Subpart A--Interpretive Rules [Reserved]

                      Subpart B_Rules of Procedure

       Complaints, Investigations, Findings and Preliminary Orders

Sec.
1978.100 Purpose and scope.
1978.101 Definitions.
1978.102 Filing of discrimination complaint.
1978.103 Investigation.
1978.104 Issuance of findings and preliminary orders.
1978.105 Objections to the findings and the preliminary order.

                               Litigation

1978.106 Scope of rules; applicability of other rules; notice of 
          hearing.
1978.107 Parties.
1978.108 Captions, titles of cases.
1978.109 Decision and orders.
1978.110 Judicial review.
1978.111 Withdrawal of section 405 complaints, objections, and findings; 
          settlement.

                        Miscellaneous Provisions

1978.112 Arbitration or other proceedings.
1978.113 Judicial enforcement.
1978.114 Statutory time periods.
1978.115 Special circumstances; waiver of rules.

    Authority: 29 U.S.C. 657(g)(2); 29 U.S.C. 660(c)(2); 49 U.S.C. 31101 
and 31105; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-90, 55 FR 9033.

    Source: 53 FR 47681, Nov. 25, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A--Interpretive Rules [Reserved]


       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.