POLYGRAPH TESTING.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B01356R000200240022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 15, 1987
• Content Type: MISC

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L,sgislative Summary - 14
would bar most unionized construc-
tion companies from setting up non-
union subsidiaries to do the same
work as the parent firm.
The practice of setting up dual
shops is known as "double-breasting,"
and is not, in itself, illegal. But con-
struction union officials contend that
companies abuse the practice in order
to get around union contracts.
The legislation curbs double-
breasting by redefining the term "sin-
gle employer." Under the bill. two or
more entities would be treated as a
single employer if they met specific
criteria laid out in the bill: if they did
work within the geographical area cov-
ered by a union contract. if they per-
formed the type of work described in
the contract; and if they were under,
either directly or indirectly. common
ownership. management or control. (p.
1333)
High-Risk Notification. The
House and Senate Labor committees
have approved legislation (HR 162 -
H Rept 100-194, S 79) setting up a new
government health board to monitor
occupational risks on the job. The
board would identify workers who are
exposed to health hazards and then di-
rect employers to notify those workers.
The bills would neither provide
nor pay for treatment.
The House bill was approved May
19. the Senate bill July 23.
The legislation is controversial.
and floor fights in both chambers are
likely. Organized labor and some busi-
nesses. including the electronics in-
dustry and chemical manufacturers,
support the measure, but a coalition of
companies and trade associations put
together by the National Association
of Manufacturers opposes the bills. (p.
House nor the Senate has taken action
on legislation to increase the mini-
mum hourly wage from its current
level of $3.35 to $4.65 over three years.
However, the Labor committees
in both chambers have held hearings
on the bills (S 837. HR 1834), and the
legislation could start to move in the
fall.
The measures are strongly sup-
ported by organized labor. but the
business community. with the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce in the lead, op-
poses any increase. Business spokes-
men contend that raising the mini-
mum wage will cost jobs because
employers will cut back on entry-level
or low-paying positions rather than in-
crease the wages. They also argue that
an increase will hurt companies' ef-
forts to be competitive in world mar-
kets. (p. 403)
Pensions. Legislation to protect
the pensions of some 30 million work-
ers has been approved by the House
Education and Labor and Ways and
Means committees.
Both panels' legislation is very
similar, and the goals are identical: to
strengthen financially unstable pen-
sion plans by tightening funding stan-
dards: to give the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the
federal agency that insures pension
plans, sounder financial footing: and
to encourage companies with excess
funds in their plans to keep the plans
going rather than terminate them to
get at the surplus cash.
Both committees raise the annual
premium an employer must pay the
PBGC for each covered employee. The
Labor panel boosts the premium from
the current $8.50 per employee to $19,
plus a charge of $200 per employee if a
defined benefit plan - which guaran-
tees a retiree a specific benefit - is
terminated after July 1. 1987. After
three years. the termination charge
would be recalculated as a percentage
of the PBGC deficit.
The Ways and Means proposal in-
creases the premium to $14 with an
additional variable charge for pension
plans that currently do not contain suf-
ficient funds to meet their obligations.
The pension changes both com-
mittees make will be rolled into a
wide-ranging budget "reconciliation"
bill scheduled to move in the House
this fall. The two panels may not iron
out their differences until a confer-
ence with the Senate. (p. 1723)
Polygraph Testing. Legislation
to bar most private companies from
using polygraphs. or lie-detector tests,
as a condition for getting or keeping a
job was approved by the House Edu-
cation and Labor Committee.
The bill (HR 1212 - H Rept 100-
208) exempts federal, state and local
government agencies, as well as per-
sons doing counterintelligence work.
The measure specifically allows lie-de-
tector tests for people who may be un-
der contract for work with the CIA,
National Security Agency, FBI, De-
partment of Defense or Department of
Eergy. (4 837)
PAGE 1884-Aug. 15. 1987
Law/Judiciary
Sessions, Bork Nominations.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will
take up two important nominations
following its August recess. On Sept. 9,
the panel will begin hearings on the
nomination of U.S. District Judge
William S. Sessions of San Antonio to
be the new head of the FBI.
Sessions, 57, would replace Wil-
liam H. Webster. who was confirmed
by the Senate May 19 as director of
The House and Senate Labor committees have approved legislation that would
require identification and notification of workers exposed to hazardous substances.
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