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U.S. Code > Title 29 > Chapter 29 > § 2702 - Purposes

  As used in this chapter:
  (1) Advanced workplace practices
    The term "advanced workplace practices" means innovations in
  work organization and performance, including high-performance
  workplace systems, flexible production techniques, quality
  programs, continuous improvement, concurrent engineering, close
  relationships between suppliers and customers, widely diffused
  decisionmaking and work teams, and effective integration of
  production technology, worker skills and training, and workplace
  organization, and such other characteristics as determined
  appropriate by the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the
  Secretary of Commerce.
  (2) Advanced workplace technologies
    The term "advanced workplace technologies" includes - 
      (A) numerically controlled machine tools, robots, automated
    process control equipment, computerized flexible manufacturing
    systems, associated computer software, and other technology for
    improving the manufacturing and industrial production of goods
    and commercial services, which advance the state-of-the-art; or
      (B) novel industrial and commercial techniques and processes
    not previously generally available that improve quality,
    productivity, and practices, including engineering design,
    quality assurance, concurrent engineering, continuous process
    production technology, inventory management, upgraded worker
    skills, communications with customers and suppliers, and
    promotion of sustainable economic growth.
  (3) Department
    The term "Department" means the Department of Labor.
  (4) Nonprofit organization
    The term "nonprofit organization" means a tax-exempt
  organization, as described in paragraph (3), (4), or (5) of
  section 501(c) of title 26.
  (5) Secretary
    The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor.
  (6) Worker organization
    The term "worker organization" means a labor organization
  within the meaning of section 501(c)(5) of title 26.

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