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GA SB469
Bill
Status
Engrossed
3/7/2012
Primary Sponsor
Don Balfour
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AI Summary
- Extends Georgia's mass picketing prohibition to private residences and bans targeted picketing of homes of officers, executives, or employees of entities party to a labor dispute if the intent or foreseeable effect is to interfere with quiet enjoyment or cause violence or intimidation
- Allows employers or targeted persons to seek injunctive relief in circuit court against prohibited picketing, with mandatory court costs and attorney's fees awarded to prevailing plaintiffs
- Imposes civil fines of $1,000 per day for individuals and $10,000 per day for unions or organizations that continue prohibited picketing after being enjoined
- Declares Georgia public policy that employees have the right to employment without joining a labor union, paying union dues or fees, and may decertify a union under federal law; requires the Department of Labor to develop employee rights notices and authorizes private employers to post them
- Changes union dues deduction authorizations from irrevocable for up to one year to annual written authorizations revocable at any time by the employee, and allows persons to be convicted of both conspiracy to commit criminal trespass and the completed crime of criminal trespass (a high and aggravated misdemeanor for the conspiracy charge)
Legislative Description
Labor; provide provisions prohibiting mass picketing shall apply to certain private residences
Last Action
House Withdrawn, Recommitted
3/29/2012
Committee Referrals
Industrial Relations3/12/2012
Insurance and Labor2/22/2012
Full Bill Text
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