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ARTICLE · 10 JULY 2018

No Dues For You!

It also stated that "it is simply not true that unions will refuse to serve as the exclusive representative of all employees in the unit if they are not given agency fees.

United StatesEmployment and HR

On Wednesday the United States Supreme Court overturned a 41-year-old precedent which allowed unions to require unionized public sector employees who decline to become dues paying members of the union to instead pay "agency fees" in lieu of dues. . In Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, 585 U.S. _______ (2018), the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Illinois' Public Labor Relations Act which required public employees to pay "agency fees" if they declined to join a union that was acting as an exclusive representative to the employer on behalf of all employees. Both Pennsylvania and New Jersey have similar laws mandating the payment of agency fees by non-members. The New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act, N.J.S.A. §§ 34:13A-1, et seq., which covers public employees, has provisions which require agency fee deductions from bargaining unit employees who decline union membership. The Pennsylvania Public Employee Fair Share Fee Law, 43

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