Janus and Public Pension Funds
September 17, 2018
In last Term’s Janus v. AFSCME, the Supreme Court ruled that union agency fees—payments that all public employees were required to make to labor unions—violated the employees’ First Amendment rights. Since Janus, several commentators have pointed out that agency fees are not the only mandatory payments deducted from public employees’ paychecks. In most states, public…