Employee Freedom Act

Bill: 115-hr-6412
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rooney, Francis [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2018-07-17
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights

Labor-management relations
Latest action: action_date: 2018-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-07-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Employee Freedom Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to unilaterally cease to deduct from the employee's paycheck dues owed by the employee to a labor organization when the agreement establishing such a deduction expires.</p> <p>The bill amends the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 to allow employees to cancel such deductions at any time. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6412 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2018 Mr. Francis Rooney of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to unilaterally cease to deduct from the employee’s paycheck dues owed by the employee to a labor organization when the agreement establishing such a deduction expires and to allow employees to cancel such deductions at any time.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Employee Freedom Act . 2. Union dues checkoff arrangements Section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act is amended by inserting before the period the following: , except that it shall not be a violation of this paragraph or of paragraph (1) where an employer unilaterally ceases to deduct from the employee’s paycheck dues owed by the employee to a labor organization when the agreement establishing such a deduction expires . 3. Right of employees to cancel dues checkoff at any time Section 302(c) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, is amended in paragraph (4) by striking the proviso and inserting the following: Provided , That the employer has received from each employee, on whose account such deductions are made, a written assignment that is revocable at will by the employee, at any time, upon written notice to the employer; .