Employee Paycheck Protection Act

Employee Paycheck Protection Act - Requires a labor organization, before imposing, collecting, or increasing member or other covered employee dues or fees, to provide all employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with written notice explaining how it calculated the share of such dues or fees related to non-political costs of collective bargaining.

Prohibits a labor organization from collecting dues or fees from non-union employees without their consent.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 175 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 175

   To require labor organizations to provide the notice to employees 
related to fees collection required pursuant to the Supreme Court cases 
     Teachers Local No. 1 v. Hudson and Knox v. Service Employees 
                          International Union.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2013

   Mr. Griffin of Arkansas introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require labor organizations to provide the notice to employees 
related to fees collection required pursuant to the Supreme Court cases 
     Teachers Local No. 1 v. Hudson and Knox v. Service Employees 
                          International Union.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Employee Paycheck Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTICE REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO FEES COLLECTION BY LABOR 
              ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) Notice Required.--Prior to imposing or collecting any dues or 
fees from its members or from any other employees covered by a 
collective bargaining agreement, or increasing any such dues or fees, a 
labor organization shall provide all employees covered by the 
collective bargaining agreement with a written notice explaining how 
the labor organization calculated the share of such dues or fees that 
are for non-political costs related to collective bargaining.
    (b) Affirmative Consent Required From Non-Union Employees.--A labor 
organization may not exact any funds for dues or fees from any employee 
covered by a collective bargaining agreement who is not a member of the 
labor organization without the affirmative consent of such employee.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act, the terms ``employee'' and ``labor 
organization'' have the meanings given such terms in section 2 of the 
National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152).
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