Georgia CommonsOfficial Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 6. LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND LABOR RELATIONS · Article 2. MEMBERSHIP IN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
34-6-25. Deductions from employees’ earnings of fees of labor organizations; exceptions.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
No employer shall deduct from the wages or other earnings of any employee any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to be held for or to be paid over to a labor organization except on the written authorization of the employee. Such authorization may be revoked at any time at the request of the employee.#
- (b)
Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to impair any contract, agreement, or collective bargaining agreement in existence prior to July 1, 2013.#
- (c)
This Code section shall not apply to any collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to the Railway Labor Act, as amended, or to any professional association whose membership is exclusively composed of educators, law enforcement officers, or firefighters not engaged or engaging in contracting or collective bargaining.#
History
Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 6; Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 4/HB 361.
Editor's notes
Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 6/HB 361, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.
Code Commission notes
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2013, ‘‘to July 1, 2013’’ was substituted for ‘‘to the effective date of this Code section’’ at the end of subsection (b).
Law reviews
For article on the 2013 amendment of this Code section, see 30 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 191 (2013).
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t34-(v26)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, pages 65 to 66; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.