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GA Code § 34-6-20.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations|Article 2 - Membership in Labor Organizations|§ 34-6-20.1. Statement of Rights Under Federal Law

 The rights protected under federal labor laws include, but are not limited to:    An employer's or employee's right to express views in favor of or contrary to unionization and any other labor relations issues to the full extent allowed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act;   An employee's right to participate in, and an employer's right to demand, a secret ballot election under federal law, including, without limitation, the full procedural protections afforded by such laws for defining the unit, conducting the election campaign and election, and making any challenges or objections thereto; and   An employer's right to:   Oppose the recognition of a labor organization based solely on reviewing authorization cards absent a secret ballot election conducted in accordance with federal labor laws;   Refuse to release sensitive and private employee information beyond the requirements of federal labor laws;   Maintain the confidentiality of employee information to the maximum extent allowed by federal labor laws; and   Restrict access to its property or business to the maximum extent allowed by federal labor laws.       (Code 1981, §34-6-20.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 2/HB 361.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2013, p. 623, § 6/HB 361, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.   U.S. Code.   - Section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, referred to in this Code section, is codified as 29 U.S.C. § 158(c).   Law reviews.   - For article on the 2013 enactment of this Code section, see 30 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 191 (2013).
GA Code § 34-6-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations|Article 2 - Membership in Labor Organizations|§ 34-6-22. Payment to Labor Organization of Fee or Assessment as Condition of Employment

 No individual shall be required as a condition of employment or continuance of employment to pay any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to a labor organization.   (Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 3.)   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.   - 48A Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, §§ 1655 et seq., 1671.   C.J.S.   - 51 C.J.S., Labor Relations, § 110 et seq.   ALR.    - Closed shops and closed unions, 160 A.L.R. 918.    Refusal of member of labor union to pay assessment imposed by it for purposes of promoting or defeating contemplated legislation as ground for suspension or expulsion, 175 A.L.R. 397.   Rights in union label, shop card, or other insignia denoting union shop or workmanship, 42 A.L.R.2d 709.   Procedural rights of union members in union disciplinary proceedings - modern state cases, 79 A.L.R.4th 941.   Validity, construction, and application of state right-to-work provisions, 105 A.L.R.5th 243.
GA Code § 34-6-23 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations|Article 2 - Membership in Labor Organizations|§ 34-6-23. Contracts Contrary to Public Policy

 Any provision in a contract between an employer and a labor organization which requires as a condition of employment or continuance of employment that any individual be or remain a member or an affiliate of a labor organization or that any individual pay any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to a labor organization is declared to be contrary to the public policy of this state; and any such provision in any such contract heretofore or hereafter made shall be absolutely void.   (Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 4.)   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, §§ 10, 11.   C.J.S.   - 51 C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 12, 101 et seq. 51A C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 311, 321 et seq.   ALR.    - Validity and effect of statutes restricting remedy by injunction in industrial disputes, 35 A.L.R. 460; 97 A.L.R. 1333; 106 A.L.R. 361; 120 A.L.R. 316; 124 A.L.R. 751; 127 A.L.R. 868; 150 A.L.R. 819.    Closed shops and closed unions, 160 A.L.R. 918.    Collective bargaining agreement discriminating against certain employees as infringement of their rights, 172 A.L.R. 1351.    Refusal of member of labor union to pay assessment imposed by it for purposes of promoting or defeating contemplated legislation as ground for suspension or expulsion, 175 A.L.R. 397.   Right of union rival of collective bargaining agent union to act for individual employee or group of employees as regards grievances, 9 A.L.R.2d 696.   Legality of, and injunction against, peaceful picketing to force employees to join union or to compel employer to enter into a contract which would in effect compel them to do so, in the absence of a dispute between employer and employees as to terms or conditions of employment, 11 A.L.R.2d 1338.   Rights in union label, shop card, or other insignia denoting union shop or workmanship, 42 A.L.R.2d 709.
GA Code § 34-6-24 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations|Article 2 - Membership in Labor Organizations|§ 34-6-24. Contracts Requiring Membership in or Payments to Labor Organizations as Condition of Employment

 It shall be unlawful for any employer to contract with any labor organization and for any labor organization to contract with any employer so as to require as a condition of employment or continuance of employment that any individual be or remain a member of a labor organization or that any individual pay any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to a labor organization.   (Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 5.)   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, §§ 10, 11.   C.J.S.   - 51 C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 12, 110 et seq. 51A C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 316, 327 et seq., 347 et seq.   ALR.    - Collective bargaining agreement discriminating against certain employees as infringement of their rights, 172 A.L.R. 1351.
GA Code § 34-6-26 (2021)
2021 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.
GA Code § 34-6-28 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations|Article 2 - Membership in Labor Organizations|§ 34-6-28. Penalty for Violations of Code Sections 34-6-24 Through 34-6-26

 Any employer or labor organization and any person acting for an employer or labor organization who violates any of the provisions of Code Section 34-6-24, 34-6-25, or 34-6-26 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in Code Section 17-10-3.   (Ga. L. 1947, p. 616, § 9.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Deduction or collection of labor union dues from wages of employees, 135 A.L.R. 507.   Interferences with production by concerted action of employees, short of formal strike, as affected by labor relations acts, 25 A.L.R.2d 315.   Rights and remedies of workmen blacklisted by labor union, 46 A.L.R.2d 1124.   Validity and construction of "right-to-work" laws, 92 A.L.R.2d 598.
GA Code § 34-7-21 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 2 - Employer's Liability for Injuries Generally|§ 34-7-21. Liability of Employer for Coemployees' Negligence

 With the exception of railroad companies, the employer shall not be liable to one employee for injuries arising from the negligence or misconduct of other employees about the same business.   (Code 1863, § 2180; Code 1868, § 2176; Code 1873, § 2202; Code 1882, § 2202; Civil Code 1895, § 2610; Civil Code 1910, § 3129; Code 1933, § 66-304.)   Cross references.   - Liability of principal for injuries to agent by other agents generally, § 10-6-39.    Liability of employer for torts of employee engaged in independent business and not subject to immediate direction and control of employer, § 51-2-4.   Law reviews.   - For article, "Sexual Harassment Claims Under Georgia Law," see 6 Ga. St. B. J. 16 (2000).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   ANALYSIS    General Consideration   Master's Liability   Fellow Servants   Vice Principal    RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Employment Relationship, § 322 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 30 C.J.S., Employers' Liability for Injuries to employees, § 214 et seq.   ALR.    - Liability of master to common-law employee for injury inflicted by instrumentality of master used by another employee in sport, 30 A.L.R. 693.    Master's duty to servant to prevent continuance of dangerous sports, 40 A.L.R. 1333.    Liability of employer for consequences of vaccination or other bodily operation to which employee is subjected, 62 A.L.R. 195.    Liability of master for injuries inflicted on one servant by another by use, maliciously or in sport, of compressed-air device, 62 A.L.R. 1433.    Workmen's compensation: rights and remedies where employee was injured by a third person's negligence, 67 A.L.R. 249; 88 A.L.R. 665; 106 A.L.R. 1040.    Assumption of risk of overstrain consequent upon failure of other employee to lift his share, 74 A.L.R. 157.    Servant's liability to master for negligent or other wrongful injury to person or property of master or of third person for which master is responsible, 110 A.L.R. 831.   Right of employer sued for tort of employee to implead the latter, 5 A.L.R.3d 871.   Subrogation of employer's liability insurer to employer's right of indemnity against negligent employee, 53 A.L.R.3d 631.
GA Code § 34-7-40 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-40. "Common Carrier" Defined

 As used in this article, the term "common carrier" shall include the receiver or receivers or other person or corporation charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier.   (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 6; Civil Code 1910, § 2787; Code 1933, § 66-406.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Persons or corporations engaged in local transportation of goods as common carriers, 18 A.L.R. 1316.    Company engaged exclusively or mainly in furnishing switching service as carrier engaged in interstate commerce, 38 A.L.R. 1147.    One operating bus or stage as common carrier, 42 A.L.R. 853.
GA Code § 34-7-43 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-43. Assumption of Risk Where Employer Is Contributorily Negligent

 In any action brought against any common carrier by railroad, under and by virtue of any of the provisions of Code Sections 34-7-41 and 34-7-42, to recover damages for injuries to or the death of any of its employees, the employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of the employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.   (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 3; Civil Code 1910, § 2784; Code 1933, § 66-403.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 32B Am. Jur. 2d, Federal Employers' Liability and Compensation Acts, § 6.   ALR.    - Employer's promise to remedy defect in instrumentality as affecting defense of assumption of risk or contributory negligence, 61 A.L.R. 901.    Assumption of risk of overstrain consequent upon failure of other employee to lift his share, 74 A.L.R. 157.    Construction and application of 1939 amendment of Federal Employers' Liability Act regarding assumption of risk, 143 A.L.R. 978.    Liability of railroad for injury to alighting trainman as a result of condition of track or right of way, 172 A.L.R. 594.    Liability of employer for injury to employee due to his physical unfitness for the work to which he was assigned, 175 A.L.R. 982.   Liability, because of improper loading, of railroad consignee or his employee injured while unloading car, 29 A.L.R.3d 1039.
GA Code § 34-7-44 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-44. Employer Exemptions From Liability Void; Allowable Setoffs

 Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier by railroad to exempt itself from any liability created by Code Sections 34-7-41 through 34-7-43, shall, to that extent, be void; provided, however, that in any action brought against any such common carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of such Code sections such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief, benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or, in the event of death, to the person or persons entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action is brought.   (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 4; Civil Code 1910, § 2785; Code 1933, § 66-404.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 32B Am. Jur. 2d, Federal Employers' Liability and Compensation Acts, §§ 8, 9.   ALR.    - Independent contractor: remedial rights in respect of injuries caused by breaches of positive duties correlative to corporate franchises, 28 A.L.R. 122.    Right of setoff as between proceeds of life insurance and indebtedness of insured to insurer, 101 A.L.R. 1517.    Release or contract after injury as affected by provision of Federal Employers' Liability Act invalidating contract, rule, or device to exempt carrier from liability, 166 A.L.R. 648.   Validity, construction, and effect of agreement, in connection with real-estate lease or license by railroad, for exemption from liability or for indemnification by lessee or licensee, for consequences of railroad's own negligence, 14 A.L.R.3d 446.
GA Code § 34-7-45 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-45. Liability of Receivers, Trustees, and Assignees of Railroad Companies for Coemployees' Negligence; Lien on Railroad Company Income

  The liability of receivers, trustees, assignees, and other like officers operating railroads in, or partially in, this state for injuries and damages to employees or their property which are caused by the negligence of coemployees shall be the same as that fixed in Code Section 34-7-41.   A lien is created on the gross income of a railroad liable under Code Section 34-7-41 while in the control of any person or corporation described in subsection (a) of this Code section in favor of the injured employee superior to all other liens against the defendant under the laws of this state.    (Ga. L. 1895, p. 103, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2324; Ga. L. 1896, p. 63, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 2788; Code 1933, § 66-407.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Forum non conveniens: circumstances justifying state court's refusal to take jurisdiction of Federal Employers' Liability Act proceeding, 60 A.L.R.3d 964.
GA Code § 34-7-46 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-46. Limitation Period for Institution of Action

 No action shall be maintained under Code Sections 34-7-41 through 34-7-44 unless commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued.   (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 5; Civil Code 1910, § 2786; Code 1933, § 66-405.)   Cross references.   - Time limitation on actions against railroad companies for recovery of damages generally, § 46-1-2.   Law reviews.   - For article, "Statutes of Limitation: Counterproductive Complexities," see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (1985).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Right of action arises upon employee's death.    - Right of action afforded by this article (see now O.C.G.A. Art. 3, Ch. 7, T. 34) to parents of a railroad employee for homicide of such employee does not arise until the death of the employee; consequently, the cause of action is not barred before expiration of two years from the death of the employee, even though more than two years may elapse between the time of injury which results in death and death itself. Dameron v. Southern Ry., 44 Ga. App. 444, 161 S.E. 641 (1931).   Settlement.    - Settlement by a person injured, prior to the person's death, of a right of action arising by reason of an injury will bar recovery for a subsequent death. Dameron v. Southern Ry., 44 Ga. App. 444, 161 S.E. 641 (1931).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Independent contractor: remedial rights in respect of injuries caused by breaches of positive duties correlative to corporate franchises, 28 A.L.R. 122.
GA Code § 34-7-47 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-47. Liability of Railroad Company to Its Employees for Negligence of Employees of Another Railroad Company Using Same Track

 Where two or more chartered railroad companies whose lines terminate in the same city contract to use the same track within the corporate limits, the company owning the track shall not be responsible to its employees for injuries sustained solely by reason of the negligent use of the track by the employees of the other company.   (Civil Code 1895, § 1865; Civil Code 1910, § 2229; Code 1933, § 66-408.)
GA Code § 34-7-48 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 3 - Employer's Liability for Injuries to Railroad Employees|§ 34-7-48. Recovery by Employee Working Beyond Limited Hours of Service

 No employee of any railroad company shall be deprived of his right to recover damages for personal injury by reason of the fact that at the time of such injury he was making a run of more than 13 hours, or making a run aggregating more than 13 hours in 24 hours, or had gone on duty after a 13 hour run, or runs aggregating 13 hours, before ten hours' rest.   (Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 186, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2240; Civil Code 1910, § 2693; Code 1933, § 66-410; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 34/HB 323.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted ", as prohibited by Code Section 46-8-152" following "rest" at the end of this Code section.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Liability for injury to an employee as affected by expiration of statutory hours of labor before injury, 71 A.L.R. 861.
GA Code § 34-8-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 8 - Employment Security|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 34-8-3. Right of General Assembly to Amend or Repeal Chapter; Effect

 The General Assembly reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter at any time; and there shall be no vested private rights of any kind against such amendment or repeal. All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by this chapter, or by actions taken pursuant thereto, shall exist subject to the power of the General Assembly to amend or repeal this chapter at any time.    (Code 1981, §34-8-3, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)
GA Code § 34-8-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 8 - Employment Security|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 34-8-4. Representation by Attorney General

 In any civil action to enforce this chapter, the Commissioner, the board of review, and the state shall be represented by the Attorney General of this state.    (Code 1981, §34-8-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 34.)