{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-6-25","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 34-6-25","heading":"Deductions from employees’ earnings of fees of labor organizations; exceptions.","body":"(a) No employer shall deduct from the wages or other earnings of any employee any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to be held for or to be paid over to a labor organization except on the written authorization of the employee. Such authorization may be revoked at any time at the request of the employee.\n(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to impair any contract, agreement, or collective bargaining agreement in existence prior to July 1, 2013.\n(c) This Code section shall not apply to any collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to the Railway Labor Act, as amended, or to any professional association whose membership is exclusively composed of educators, law enforcement officers, or firefighters not engaged or engaging in contracting or collective bargaining.","path":["TITLE 34 Labor and Industrial Relations","CHAPTER 6 Labor Organizations and Labor Relations","Article 2 Membership in Labor Organizations"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.34.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"fa9dbb802141a75ddaa04240e5df0e4c9ace70c058f6db223437e1d6b91b918d","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-6-24","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-6-26"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}