(a) The performance of a recipient's obligations under the
nondiscrimination provisions of these regulations may necessitate a
revision in a collective bargaining agreement(s). The policy of the
Department of Labor is to use its best efforts, directly or through the
recipients, subgrantees, local officials, vocational rehabilitation
facilities, and other available instrumentalities, to cause any labor
union, recruiting and training agency or other representative or workers
who are or may be engaged in work under programs of Federal financial
assistance to cooperate with, and to comply in the implementation of
section 504.
(b) To effectuate the purposes of paragraph (a) of this section, the
Assistant Secretary may hold hearings, public or private, with respect
to the practices and policies of any such labor union or recruiting and
training agency.
(c) Whenever compliance with section 504 necessitates a revision of
a collective bargaining agreement or otherwise significantly affects a
substantial number of employees represented by the union, the collective
bargaining representatives shall be given an opportunity to present
their views to the Assistant Secretary.
(d) The Assistant Secretary may notify any Federal, State, or local
agency of his/her conclusions and recommendations with respect to any
such labor organization or recruiting and training agency which in his/
her judgment has failed to cooperate with the Department of Labor,
recipients, subgrantees or applicants in carrying out the purposes of
section 504. The Assistant Secretary also may notify other appropriate
Federal agencies when there is reason to believe that the practices of
any such labor organization or agency violates other provisions of
Federal law.
