29 U.S.C. § 438 — Rules and regulations; simplified reports

This section gives the Secretary power to write and change the rules for reports required under this subchapter. The Secretary can issue, change, or cancel rules and regulations that set the form of these reports and how they get published. The Secretary can also make other reasonable rules needed to stop people from getting around the reporting requirements — this includes rules requiring reports about trusts that a labor organization has an interest in. The Secretary must also create simplified reports, by general rule, for labor organizations or employers that are small enough that a full, detailed report would be an unfair burden. But the Secretary can take away that simplified-form option for a specific labor organization or employer. To do that, the Secretary must first investigate as much as seems proper, give notice, and give the organization or employer a chance for a hearing — and only revoke it if doing so would serve the purposes of this section.