Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 19. LABOR PRACTICES · Article 1. STRIKES BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

45-19-5. Action by person not a public employee to encourage strike.

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

Any person who is not a public employee and who shall knowingly incite, agitate, influence, coerce, persuade, or picket to urge a public employee to strike shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00, or both.

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.

Ga. L. 1962, p. 459, § 4; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1155, § 1.

For article discussing right of Georgia state employees to participate in strikes, see 4 Ga. L. Rev. 110 (1969).

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