According to the European Court of Human Rights, the systematic deduction of subscriptions from employees' salaries when they are not unionized – which is destined at financing unions' control of the employer's respect of conventional minimum wage – violates the right of respect for property. (Ref. 070147)
The construction sector’s collective agreement is conferring a prerogative to local unions to control the respect by employers of the wage level in force in the sector. This activity is financed by deductions made directly by the employer on all of his employees’ salary, whether they are unionized or not. Five non-unionized workers in a construction company opposed to this deduction. The employees, who did not win the case before national jurisdictions, referred the matter to the European Court
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