Public employees: fair share payments.

Existing law provides that once an employee organization is recognized as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit, it may enter into an agreement with the state employer providing for organizational security in the form of maintenance of membership or fair share fee deduction. Existing law requires the state to deduct the amount specified by the recognized employee organization from the salary or wages of every employee for the membership fee or the fair share fee and to remit these fees monthly to the recognized employee organization. This bill would authorize any employee subject to a fair share fee to instead instruct the state to deduct and pay sums equal to the fair share fee to a retirement savings plan of the employee's choosing, except as specified.