- Posted May 29, 2012
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Schuette says Michigan can't withhold home health workers' dues
LANSING (AP) -- Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is the latest person to weigh in on whether the state can collect union dues from home health care workers.
The Republican official said in an opinion issued last Friday that the state has no legal authority to withhold union dues from payments issued to home help providers through the Michigan Medicaid program because they aren't public employees.
GOP Gov. Rick Snyder last month signed legislation excluding those who receive a government subsidy for private employment from the definition of a public employee.
Unions hope to counteract the legislation through a measure they're trying to get on the November ballot.
It would enshrine features of the Michigan Quality Community Care Council program in the state constitution and give the workers limited collective bargaining rights.
Published: Tue, May 29, 2012
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