N.Y. Civil Service Law § 215: Dues or agency shop fee deductions

§ 215. Dues or agency shop fee deductions. 1. Notwithstanding any

other law to the contrary, any public employer, any employee

organization, the comptroller and the board, or any of their employees

or agents, shall not be liable for, and shall have a complete defense

to, any claims or actions under the laws of this state for requiring,

deducting, receiving, or retaining dues or agency shop fee deductions

from public employees, and current or former public employees shall not

have standing to pursue these claims or actions, if the dues or fees

were permitted or mandated at the time under the laws of this state then

in force and paid, through payroll deduction or otherwise, prior to June

twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.

2. This section shall apply to claims and actions pending or filed on

or after June twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.

3. The enactment of this section shall not be interpreted to create

the inference that any relief made unavailable by this section would

otherwise be available.