29 C.F.R. § 452.40 Prior Office Holding

• Library: Code of Federal Regulations
• Edition: 2019 Edition
• Currency: Current through December 31, 2019
• Citation: 29 C.F.R. § 452.40
• Year: 2019

A requirement that candidates for office have some prior service in a lower office is not considered reasonable. 26

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26 Wirtz v. Hotel, Motel and Club Employees Union, Local 6,391 U.S. 492 at 504. The Court stated that the union, in applying such a rule, "* * * assumes that rank and file union members are unable to distinguish qualified from unqualified candidates for particular offices without a demonstration of a candidate's performance in other offices. But Congress' model of democratic elections was political elections in this Country, and they are not based on any such assumption. Rather, in those elections the assumption is that voters will exercise...