The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 3 V.S.A. § 1012)
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§ 1012. Employees’ rights and duties; prohibited acts
(a) Employees shall have the right to self-organization; to form, join, or assist employee
organizations; to bargain collectively through their chosen representatives; to engage
in concerted activities of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection;
to refrain from any or all those activities, except as provided in subsections (b)
and (c) of this section; and to appeal grievances as provided in this chapter.
(b) An employee may not strike or recognize a picket line of an employee organization
while performing the employee’s official duties.
(c) An employee who exercises the right not to join the employee organization representing
the employee’s certified unit pursuant to section 1021 of this title shall pay a collective bargaining service fee to the representative of the bargaining
unit in the same manner as employees who pay membership fees to the representative.
The employee organization shall indemnify and hold the employer harmless from any
and all claims stemming from the implementation or administration of the collective
bargaining service fee. Nothing in this section shall require an employer to discharge
an employee who does not pay the collective bargaining service fee.
(d) The employer and employees and the employee’s representative shall exert every reasonable
effort to make and maintain agreements concerning matters allowable under section 1013 of this title and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of those agreements
or growing out of any dispute between the employer and the employees.
(e) Employees who are members of the employee organization shall have the right to automatic
membership dues deductions. Upon receipt of a signed authorization to commence automatic
membership dues deductions from an employee, the employer shall, as soon as practicable
and in any event, not later than 30 calendar days after receiving the authorization,
commence withholding from the employee’s wages the amount of membership dues certified
by the employee organization. The employer shall transmit the amount withheld to the
employee organization on the same day as the employee is paid. Nothing in this subsection
shall be construed to require a member of an employee organization to participate
in automatic dues deduction. (Added 1997, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 9; amended 2013, No. 37, § 7; 2019, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)