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[CITE: 29USC169]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                  CHAPTER 7--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
 
Sec. 169. Employees with religious convictions; payment of dues 
        and fees
        
    Any employee who is a member 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 a contract 
between such employees' employer and a labor organization in lieu of 
periodic dues and initiation fees, to pay sums equal to such dues and 
initiation fees to a nonreligious, nonlabor organization charitable fund 
exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of title 26, chosen by such 
employee from a list of at least three such funds, designated in such 
contract or if the contract fails to designate such funds, then to any 
such fund chosen by the employee. If such employee who holds 
conscientious objections pursuant to this section requests the labor 
organization to use the grievance-arbitration procedure on the 
employee's behalf, the labor organization is authorized to charge the 
employee for the reasonable cost of using such procedure.

(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, Sec. 19, as added Pub. L. 93-360, Sec. 3, July 
26, 1974, 88 Stat. 397; amended Pub. L. 96-593, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 
3452.)


                               Amendments

    1980--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.


                             Effective Date

    Section 4 of Pub. L. 93-360 provided that: ``The amendments made by 
this Act [enacting this section and section 183 of this title and 
amending sections 152 and 158 of this title] shall become effective on 
the thirtieth day after its date of enactment [July 26, 1974].''
