29 U.S.C. § 143 — Saving provisions

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This law protects an employee's right to quit a job. No one can be forced to work against their will, and quitting is never illegal under this chapter. Quitting because of abnormally dangerous conditions also doesn't count as a strike.

Nothing in this chapter can be read to require an employee to work or provide services without agreeing to it. Nothing in this chapter makes it illegal for an individual employee to quit their job. No court may issue an order forcing an employee to keep working against their will. There is also a special rule: if an employee or group of employees quits work in good faith because of abnormally dangerous conditions at the workplace, that is not treated as a "strike" under this chapter.

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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without his consent, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of his labor by an individual employee an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual employee of such labor or service, without his consent; nor shall the quitting of labor by an employee or employees in good faith because of abnormally dangerous conditions for work at the place of employment of such employee or employees be deemed a strike under this chapter.

Source credit: (June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, § 502, 61 Stat. 162.)

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1947Enacted · Act of June 23, 1947, ch. 120 · 61 Stat. 162

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