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An Act To Amend the Employment Practices Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §629, sub-§4,  as repealed and replaced by PL 2007, c. 524, §1, is amended to read:
 
4.  Deduction of service fees.   Public employers mayshall deduct service fees owed by an employee to a collective bargaining agent from the employee's pay, without signed authorization from the employee, and remit those fees to the bargaining agent, as long as:
 
A. The fee obligation arises from a lawfully executed and implemented collective bargaining agreement; and
 
B.  In the event a fee payor owes any arrears on the payor's fee obligations, the deduction authorized under this subsection may include an installment on a payment plan to reimburse all arrears, but may not exceed in each pay period 10% of the gross pay owed.
 
SUMMARY
Current law allows public employers to deduct service fees owed by an employee to a collective bargaining agent from employee's pay. This bill requires an employer to deduct the fees.