2020 Georgia Code
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
- 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.
- Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to impair any contract, agreement, or collective bargaining agreement in existence prior to July 1, 2013.
(Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 7; Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 5/HB 361.)
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).
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 6/HB 361, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.
Law reviews.- For article on the 2013 amendment of this Code section, see 30 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 191 (2013).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Sandt v. Mason, 208 Ga. 541, 67 S.E.2d 767 (1951); McDowell v. Clement Bros. Co., 260 F. Supp. 817 (N.D. Ga. 1966).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Union shop agreement.
- A union shop agreement between a railroad and a union is enforceable in Georgia in light of the amendment to the federal Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., authorizing union shop agreements notwithstanding any state right to work law. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-12.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 48 Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, § 15.
C.J.S.- 51 C.J.S., Labor Relations, § 110 et seq. 51A C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 351, 361, 362, 399 et seq.
ALR.- Contract provisions for deduction of union dues from wages of employees and their payment to union as within statute prohibiting or regulating assignment of future earnings or wages, 14 A.L.R.2d 177.
Rights in union label, shop card, or other insignia denoting union shop or workmanship, 42 A.L.R.2d 709.
