§4118 Administrative Provisions

Summary

The Department must honor any written permission from an employee to have union dues taken out of their paycheck. The permission must cost nothing to the employee or the union. Except as below, an employee cannot cancel that permission for one year after they sign it. The deduction stops if the union stops being the workers’ official representative, the employee stops getting a Department salary as a member of the Service, or the employee is suspended or kicked out of the union. If there is no official union, the Department must talk with a union that files a petition saying it has 10 percent membership and the Board agrees. That talk is only about taking voluntary dues from members who ask. Workers who represent the union in bargaining get paid time during work hours, limited to the number of management reps. Internal union work must be done off-duty. The Board decides paid time for Board cases, and other paid time can be agreed to if it is reasonable, needed, and in the public interest.