Rob Andrews: “The Sales Incentive Compensation Act does not change the law of impasse in any way. The bill does not create a new right…”

“The Sales Incentive Compensation Act does not change the law of impasse in any way. The bill does not create a new right or authority for an employer to implement unilaterally the exemption provided by the legislation in a circumstance where an employer is engaged in collective bargaining negotiations with a labor organization and the negotiating parties have reached an impasse. As a coauthor of H.R. 2888, I want to make it clear that the bill may not be used as an instrument, if an impasse occurs, to secure an outcome that would never result from the normal ebb and flow of the free collective bargaining process.”