§ 169. Employees with religious convictions; payment of dues and fees

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1935

   Pub. L. 93–360 § 3 · 88 Stat. 395

   Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 169

   July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 19, as added Pub. L. 93–360, § 3, July 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 397

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 19, as added Pub. L. 93–360, § 3, July 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 397

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. The National Labor Relations Act is amended by adding immediately after section 18 thereof the following new section: “individuals with religious convictions “Sec. 19. Any employee of a health care institution who is a member 29 USC 169. of and adheres to established and traditional tenets or teachings of a bona fide religion, body, or sect which has historically held conscientious objections to joining or financially supporting labor organizations shall not be required to join or financially support any labor organization as a condition of employment; except that such employee may be required, in lieu of periodic dues and initiation fees, to pay sums equal to such dues and initiation fees to a nonreligious charitable fund exempt from taxation under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, chosen by such employee from a list of at least 26 USC 501. three such funds, designated in a contract between such institution and a labor organization, or if the contract fails to designate such funds, then to any such fund chosen by the employee.”

2. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–593 · 94 Stat. 3452

   1. Inserted · 29 U.S.C. § 169

      Pub. L. 96–593 inserted reference to nonlabor organization and provisions respecting charges to employee for use of grievance-arbitration procedure

   2. Struck · 29 U.S.C. § 169

      Pub. L. 96–593 struck out applicability of provisions to employees of health care institutions only

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 96–593 inserted reference to nonlabor organization and provisions respecting charges to employee for use of grievance-arbitration procedure, and struck out applicability of provisions to employees of health care institutions only.

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