29 U.S.C. § 433 — Report of employers

(a) Filing and contents of report of payments, loans, promises, agreements, or arrangements. Any employer who, in a fiscal year, did any of five things must file a signed report with the Secretary of Labor. The report must be signed by the employer's president and treasurer (or corresponding officers) and must give the date, amount, and full circumstances - including any agreement's terms - for each item, plus the name, address, and position of whoever received it. The five triggering situations are: (1) paying or lending money or anything of value - directly or indirectly, including reimbursed expenses - to a labor organization or to any of its officers, agents, shop stewards, other representatives, or employees, or promising to; this does not cover ordinary loans from banks, credit unions, insurance companies, savings and loan associations, or similar credit institutions, and does not cover certain payments already allowed under section 186(c) of this title; (2) paying the employer's own employees, or a group or committee of them, to get those employees to persuade coworkers about whether or how to unionize and bargain collectively - unless the employer told the other employees about the payment at the time or beforehand; (3) spending money, where a purpose of the spending is to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in exercising their right to organize and bargain collectively, or to gather information about employee or union activity connected to a labor dispute involving the employer - except spending used only for an administrative or arbitration case, or a criminal or civil court case; (4) making an agreement with a labor relations consultant or other outside contractor where a purpose is to have that person try to persuade employees about unionizing, or to supply the employer with information about employee or union activity in a labor dispute, again except for the proceeding-only use; and (5) making any payment under an agreement described in (4).

(b) Persuasive activities relating to the right to organize and bargain collectively; supplying information of activities in connection with labor disputes; filing and contents of report of agreement or arrangement. This subsection covers the other side of the deal: a person who, under an agreement with an employer, undertakes to (1) persuade employees about organizing and bargaining, or (2) supply the employer with information about employee or union activity connected to a labor dispute (with the same proceeding-only exception as above). That person must file a report with the Secretary within 30 days of entering the agreement. It must be signed by the person's president and treasurer (or corresponding officers) and must give the business name, the address of the main office, and a detailed statement of the agreement's terms. For every fiscal year in which payments were made under such an agreement, that person must also file an annual report, again signed by its top officers, showing (A) all receipts from employers for labor relations advice or services, naming where the money came from, and (B) all disbursements connected to those services and what they were for. The Secretary decides the categories used to report this information.

(c) Advisory or representative services exempt from filing requirements. This section does not require a report just because someone gives advice to an employer, represents or agrees to represent the employer in court, before an agency, or in arbitration, or engages in collective bargaining on the employer's behalf over wages, hours, or other job conditions, including negotiating an agreement or handling questions that come up under it.

(d) Exemption from filing requirements generally. An employer only has to file the (a) report if the employer actually made one of the payments, loans, expenditures, or agreements described there. Likewise, another person only has to file the (b) report if that person was actually a party to one of the described agreements or arrangements.

(e) Services by and payments to regular officers, supervisors, and employees of employer. No report is required for a regular officer, supervisor, or employee of an employer for services provided to that employer in that regular role. Similarly, the employer doesn't have to report payments made to that person as ordinary compensation for their job.

(f) Rights protected by section 158(c) of this title. Nothing in this section changes or limits the free-speech rights already protected under section 158(c) of this title.

(g) "Interfere with, restrain, or coerce" defined. In this section, that phrase means the same kind of interference, restraint, and coercion that would count as an "unfair labor practice" under section 158(a) of this title, if it were done against rights guaranteed by section 157 of this title.