Title 34

(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 …

(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer to contract with any labor organization and for any labor organization to contract with any employer for the deduction of any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever from the wages or other earnings of an employee to be held for…

The remedy of injunction, in addition to any other available remedy, is given to any individual whose employment is affected, or may be affected, by any contract which is declared in whole or in part to be void by any provision of this article. The application for injunction may …

Any employer or labor organization and any person acting for an employer or labor organization who violates any of the provisions of Code Section 34-6-24, 34-6-25, or 34-6-26 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in Code Sect…

Use of force or threats to compel continuance in or departure from employment. Unlawful assemblages near site of labor dispute. Interference with lawful exercise of business activity. Interference with public ways of travel, transportation, or conveyance by mass picketing near si…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Georgia Equal Employment for Persons With Disabilities Code.’’ (Code 1933, § 66-501, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1803, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 4.)

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) ‘‘Disability’’ means any condition or characteristic that renders a person an individual with disabilities but shall not include addiction to any drug or illegal or federally controlled substance nor addiction to the use of alcohol. (2) ‘‘Em…

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent an employer from making any job related inquiry about the existence of the disability of an applicant for employment and about the extent to which that disability has been overcome by treatment, medication, appliances, or …

(a) No employer shall fail or refuse to hire nor shall any employer discharge or discriminate against any individual with disabilities with respect to wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment because of such person’s disability unless such disabilit…

No employer shall discharge, expel, refuse to hire, or otherwise discriminate against any person or applicant for employment because such person has opposed any practice made an unfair employment practice by this chapter or because such person has filed a charge, testified, assis…

(a) Any individual with disabilities who is aggrieved by an unfair employment practice against such individual may institute a civil action against the persons engaged in such prohibited conduct. Such action may be brought in any court of record in this state having jurisdiction …

Haverty Furn. Cos., 176 Ga. App. 360, 335 S.E.2d 460 (1985); Ikemiya v. Shibamota Am., Inc., 213 Ga. App. 271, 444 S.E.2d 351 (1994). Period of employment deemed indefinite. — Promise to employ a person until the employer becomes insolvent is an offer of employment for an indefin…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘payroll card account’’ means an account that is directly or indirectly established through a person, firm, or corporation employing wageworkers or other employees and to which electronic fund transfers of the wages or salary of such em…

(a) Any order, check, draft, note, or other instrument issued in payment of wages or salary due or to become due must be negotiable and payable in cash, on demand, without discount, at some established place of business in the United States, the name and address of which must app…

(a)(1) Upon the death of any person who was employed by any political subdivision of the state or by any railroad company or other corporation, individual, or partnership doing business in this state, if the deceased employee had wages or other moneys due from such employer, it s…

Any corporation or person doing business of any kind in this state who shall issue checks or written evidences of indebtedness for the wages of laborers shall redeem at full value, in cash, such written evidences of indebtedness on demand and presentation to the proper person on …

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘professional employer organization’’ means an employee leasing company as defined in Code Section 34-8-32 that has established a coemployment relationship with another employer, pays the wages of the employees of the coemployer, reserv…

The employer is bound to exercise ordinary care in the selection of employees and not to retain them after knowledge of incompetency; he shall use like care in furnishing machinery equal in kind to that in general use and reasonably safe for all persons who operate it with ordina…

With the exception of railroad companies, the employer shall not be liable to one employee for injuries arising from the negligence or misconduct of other employees about the same business. (Code 1863, § 2180; Code 1868, § 2176; Code 1873, § 2202; Code 1882, § 2202; Civil Code 18…

All contracts between employer and employee made in consideration of employment, whereby the employer is exempted from liability to the employee arising from the negligence of the employer or his employees, as such liability is fixed by law, shall be null and void, as against pub…

An employee assumes the ordinary risks of his employment and is bound to exercise his own skill and diligence to protect himself. In actions for injuries arising from the negligence of the employer in failing to comply with the duties imposed by Code Section 34-7-20, in order tha…

As used in this article, the term ‘‘common carrier’’ shall include the receiver or receivers or other person or corporation charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier. (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 6; Civil Code 1910, § 2787; Code 1933, § …

Every common carrier by railroad shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier or, in case of death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving spouse or child or children of such emplo…

In all actions brought against any common carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Code section, Code Section 34-7-41, 34-7-43, 34-7-44, or 34-7-46 to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee or for death of an employee where such injuri…

In any action brought against any common carrier by railroad, under and by virtue of any of the provisions of Code Sections 34-7-41 and 34-7-42, to recover damages for injuries to or the death of any of its employees, the employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of hi…

Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier by railroad to exempt itself from any liability created by Code Sections 34-7-41 through 34-7-43, shall, to that extent, be void; provided, however, that in …

(a) The liability of receivers, trustees, assignees, and other like officers operating railroads in, or partially in, this state for injuries and damages to employees or their property which are caused by the negligence of coemployees shall be the same as that fixed in Code Secti…

No action shall be maintained under Code Sections 34-7-41 through 34-7-44 unless commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued. (Ga. L. 1909, p. 160, § 5; Civil Code 1910, § 2786; Code 1933, § 66-405.)

Where two or more chartered railroad companies whose lines terminate in the same city contract to use the same track within the corporate limits, the company owning the track shall not be responsible to its employees for injuries sustained solely by reason of the negligent use of…

No employee of any railroad company shall be deprived of his right to recover damages for personal injury by reason of the fact that at the time of such injury he was making a run of more than 13 hours, or making a run aggregating more than 13 hours in 24 hours, or had gone on du…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Employment Security Law.’’ (Code 1981, § 34-8-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)

As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Involuntary unemployment is …

The General Assembly reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter at any time; and there shall be no vested private rights of any kind against such amendment or repeal. All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by this chapter, or by actions tak…

In any civil action to enforce this chapter, the Commissioner, the board of review, and the state shall be represented by the Attorney General of this state. (Code 1981, § 34-8-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 34.) ARTICLE 2 DEFINITIONS

(a) As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘annual payroll’’ means the total amount of wages for employment paid by an employer during the 12 month period immediately preceding and ending on the computation date. (b) As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘average annual payroll’’ means …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, as used in this chapter, the term ‘‘base period’’ means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual’s benefit year; provided, however, that, in the …

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘benefits’’ means the compensation payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to the individual’s unemployment. (Code 1981, § 34-8-22, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘benefit year’’ with respect to any individual means the one-year period beginning with the day on which a valid claim is filed. In the case of a combined wage claim pursuant to Code Section 34-8-80, the benefit year shall be that of the paying …

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘bona fide in the labor market’’ means that any person claiming benefits under this chapter must be available for full-time employment, as that term is generally understood in the trade or work classification involved, without regard to prior wo…

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘calendar quarter’’ means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on the dates of March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31 of each year or such other dates as the Commissioner may by regulation prescribe. (Code 1981, § 34-8…

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘Commissioner’’ means the Commissioner of Labor. (Code 1981, § 34-8-26, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘common paymaster’’ means one of two or more related corporations which concurrently employ the same individual and which is designated to remunerate such individual for services performed for all such related corporations. Upon approval by the …

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘computation date’’ means June 30 of each calendar year with respect to rates applicable to the succeeding calendar year for each employer whose account could have been chargeable with benefits throughout the 36 consecutive calendar month period…

(a) As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘contributions’’ means the money payments to the Unemployment Compensation Fund required by Code Sections 34-8-150 through 34-8-156. (b) As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘payments in lieu of contributions’’ means the money payments to reim…

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘deductible earnings’’ means all money in excess of $30.00 each week earned by a claimant for services performed, whether or not received by such claimant. For claims filed on or after July 1, 2002, the term ‘‘deductible earnings’’ means all mon…

As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘department’’ means the Georgia Department of Labor. (Code 1981, § 34-8-31, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.)