                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
                CHAPTER 24--CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--EXTENSION OF RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS
 
Part A--Employment Discrimination, Family and Medical Leave, Fair Labor 
    Standards, Employee Polygraph Protection, Worker Adjustment and 
  Retraining, Employment and Reemployment of Veterans, and Intimidation
 
Sec. 1315. Rights and protections under Worker Adjustment and 
        Retraining Notification Act
        

(a) Worker adjustment and retraining notification rights

                           (1) In general

        No employing office shall be closed or a mass layoff ordered 
    within the meaning of section 3 of the Worker Adjustment and 
    Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2102) until the end of a 60-
    day period after the employing office serves written notice of such 
    prospective closing or layoff to representatives of covered 
    employees or, if there are no representatives, to covered employees.

                           (2) Definitions

        For purposes of this section, the term ``covered employee'' 
    shall include employees of the General Accounting Office and the 
    Library of Congress and the term ``employing office'' shall include 
    the General Accounting Office and the Library of Congress.

(b) Remedy

    The remedy for a violation of subsection (a) of this section shall 
be such remedy as would be appropriate if awarded under paragraphs (1), 
(2), and (4) of section 5(a) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining 
Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2104(a)(1), (2), and (4)).

(c) Regulations to implement section

                           (1) In general

        The Board shall, pursuant to section 1384 of this title, issue 
    regulations to implement this section.

                       (2) Agency regulations

        The regulations issued under paragraph (1) shall be the same as 
    substantive regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor to 
    implement the statutory provisions referred to in subsection (a) of 
    this section except insofar as the Board may determine, for good 
    cause shown and stated together with the regulation, that a 
    modification of such regulations would be more effective for the 
    implementation of the rights and protections under this section.

(d) Effective date

                           (1) In general

        Except as provided in paragraph (2), subsections (a) and (b) of 
    this section shall be effective 1 year after January 23, 1995.

        (2) General Accounting Office and Library of Congress

        This section shall be effective with respect to the General 
    Accounting Office and the Library of Congress 1 year after 
    transmission to the Congress of the study under section 1371 of this 
    title.

(Pub. L. 104-1, title II, Sec. 205, Jan. 23, 1995, 109 Stat. 11.)
