Joint Labor-Management Committees

Sometimes the committees only receive reports from other committees on selected activities and monitor hazard correction and program effectiveness [7]. This will depend on your workplace. 

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Participating on safety and health committees, joint labor-management committees, and other advisory or specific purpose committees, if otherwise lawful and appropriate. 

A) health or genetic services are offered by the employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee, including such services... 

D) any individually identifiable genetic information provided under sub-paragraph (C) in connection with the services provided under subparagraph (A) is only available for purposes of such services and shall not be disclosed to the employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee except in aggregate terms that do not disclose the identity of specific individuals ... 

As nsed in this snbchapter, the phrase unlawful employment practice shall not be deemed to inclnde any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor-management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist-action or Communist-front organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 [50 U.S.C. 781 et seq.]. 

The Joint Labor-Management Committee. A joint labor-management committee should be used in general industry. Employee members appear to have management duties as regular work assignments. 

Joint labor-management committees are a popular method of employee participation. Other types of committees also have been used successfully to allow employee participation. At many unionized facih-ties, employee safety committees (with members selected by the union or elected by employees) work alone, with little direct management participation, on various tasks. In other workplaces, employees participate on a central safety committee. Some worksites use employees or joint committees for specific purposes, such as conducting workplace surveys, investigating incidents, training new employees, and implementing behavioral-based safety (BBS) systems, etc. [7]. 

In other joint committees, there may be either more employee participants (for example, at construction sites where several different trade unions represent employees) or more management participants (especially where safety, medical, and industrial hygiene professionals are counted as management). The top management at the workplace frequently chairs these conunittees. In other cases these committees are employees who are elected by the committee itself [7]. They work by consensus and do not take formal votes. Their usual functions are similar to those of the joint labor-management committees. 

Provide timely and appropriate follow-up to recommendations made by employee or joint labor-management committees... 

Joint/labor management committees Employee safety representatives Employee involvement Safety bulletin boards Use of computers... 

Reese, C.D. Joint Labor/Management Committees A Guide for Committee Members. Storrs, CT UConn Press, 1996. 

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