[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6412 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6412

   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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    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 Freedom Act''.

SEC. 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''.

SEC. 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;''.
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