Under existing law, deductions may be made from the salary of state employees for membership dues, voluntary contributions, and insurance premiums. Existing law also provides a 10-day window for education employees to stop payroll deductions for membership dues. This bill would prohibit membership dues for labor organizations from being deducted from the salary of certain education employees. This bill would require employee organizations and professional associations to allow all state employees to revoke their membership at any time and without reason, and would prohibit those organizations and associations from limiting an employee's ability to revoke his or her membership. This bill would require state employees who revoke their membership from an employee organization or professional association to immediately be released from obligations relating to membership dues or voluntary contributions and be removed from the organization or association's membership list. This bill would also remove statutory limitations on when a state employee may opt out of salary deductions for membership dues or voluntary contributions, and would provide that employees must be allowed to cancel those deductions at any time.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 16-22-6, 36-1-4