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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 6. LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND LABOR RELATIONS · Article 2. MEMBERSHIP IN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

34-6-26. Contracts allowing deductions from employees’ earnings of fees of labor organizations.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any employer to contract with any labor organization and for any labor organization to contract with any employer for the deduction of any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever from the wages or other earnings of an employee to be held for or to be paid over to a labor organization except upon the condition to be embodied in such contract that such deduction will be made only on the written authorization of the employee. Such authorization may be revoked at any time at the request of the employee.#

  2. (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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 7; Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 5/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 66 to 67; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.