Prohibition on Paid Union Activity (Release Time) by Public Employees Ordinance

Model Bill Info
Bill Title	Prohibition on Paid Union Activity (Release Time) by Public Employees Ordinance
Date Finalized	September 3, 2019
Type	Model Policy
Status	Final
Task Forces	American City County Exchange

Prohibition on Paid Union Activity (Release Time) by Public Employees Ordinance

Section 1. {Ordinance Definitions} The following definitions apply in this ordinance:

(A) “Employment bargain” means any formal or informal employment contract, agreement

or understanding regarding the wages, benefits or terms and conditions of employment

of any public employee.

(B) “Public employee” means any individual who is employed by a public employer.

(C) “Union” means any association or organization, incorporated or unincorporated,

that primarily exists to represent the interests of member employees in wages,

benefits and terms and conditions of employment.

(D) “Union activities” means activities that are performed by a union,

union members or representatives that relate to advocating the interests

of member employees in wages, benefits, terms and conditions of employment

or the enforcement, fulfillment or advancement of the union’s organizational

purposes, obligations, external relations or internal policies and procedures.

Section 2. {Prohibition Against Compensation for Public Employee Union Activities}

(A) [Insert Jurisdiction] shall not enter into any employment bargain with any public

employee or union to compensate any public employee or third party for union activities.

Any employment bargain that includes compensation to public employees or third parties

for union activities is declared to be against the public policy of [Insert Jurisdiction] and is void.

(B) This section does not prohibit a public employee from receiving compensated leave time

for any personal purpose, provided that such compensated leave time is not knowingly taken

or given to compensate for union activities.

(C) This section does not apply to any existing non-executory contracts in effect before

the effective date of this section but an existing contract shall not be renewed if

the contract has any terms that conflict with this section.

(D) The [Insert Jurisdiction] shall enforce this section. Any resident of the [Insert jurisdiction] in which a violation of this section occurs has standing in any court of record to bring a

special action against [Insert jurisdiction] to remedy any violation of any provision of this section.

Section 3{Severability clause}

Section 4. {Repealer clause}

Section 5. {Effective date}