New York Sets Post-Janus Protections for Public Employee Unions

The New York State Legislature passed a set of legal protections for public employee unions against the effects of a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision curbing their ability to collect compulsory agency fees from non-members.

The provisions, announced April 1, were part of a $175.5 billion omnibus state budget bill hammered out in talks over the weekend that included numerous pieces of substantive legislation. They followed 2018 state budget legislation that made it harder for public employees to opt out of union dues on First Amendment grounds.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) proposed the protections in his January executive budget, ...