HB326 Alabama 2015 Session

The bill would protect employers from intimidating tactics relating to lawful rights of employers

The bill would also prohibit mass pickets and demonstrations that interfere with access to businesses and homes and would provide misdemeanor punishment for violators

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to prohibited practices relating to employer and employee relationships; to prevent unlawful intimidation of employers or employees from exercising federal and state rights in labor negotiations in an effort to obtain something of value; to prohibit unlawful mass picketing or mass demonstrations that deny public or private access to buildings and places; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.