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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXI
LABOR
Chapter 447
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
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F.S. 447.509
447.509 Other unlawful acts.
(1) Employee organizations, their members, agents, or representatives, or any persons acting on their behalf are hereby prohibited from:
(a) Soliciting public employees during working hours of any employee who is involved in the solicitation.
(b) Distributing literature during working hours in areas where the actual work of public employees is performed, such as offices, warehouses, schools, police stations, fire stations, and any similar public installations. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the distribution of literature during the employee’s lunch hour or in such areas not specifically devoted to the performance of the employee’s official duties.
(c) Instigating or advocating support, in any positive manner, for an employee organization’s activities from high school or grade school students during classroom time.
(d) Offering anything of value to a public officer as defined in s. 112.313(1) which the public officer is prohibited from accepting under s. 112.313(2).
(e) Offering any compensation, payment, or thing of value to a public officer as defined in s. 112.313(1) which the public officer is prohibited from accepting under s. 112.313(4).
(2) No employee organization shall directly or indirectly pay any fines or penalties assessed against individuals pursuant to the provisions of this part.
(3) The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this section by injunction and contempt proceedings, if necessary. A public employee who is convicted of a violation of any provision of this section may be discharged or otherwise disciplined by his or her public employer, notwithstanding further provisions of law, and notwithstanding the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement.
History.s. 3, ch. 74-100; s. 162, ch. 97-103; s. 5, ch. 2023-35.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 447.509
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MENEGAT v. CITY OF APOPKA,, 954 So. 2d 681 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

. . . awarding a partial final judgment in favor of the City of Apopka [“Apopka”] on their claims that section 447.509 . . . pending an investigation to determine whether they had “solicited” Jeffrey Tyre in violation of section 447.509 . . . Section 447.509 provides: (1) Employee organizations, their members, agents, or representatives, or any . . . suit against Apopka, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, principally contending that section 447.509 . . . with the trial court’s disposition of each claim and with the trial court’s conclusion that section 447.509 . . .

BROWNING, v. BRODY,, 796 So. 2d 1191 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

. . . hear and determine all actions alleging violations of the no-strike provision of the Act and section 447.509 . . .

UNITED FACULTY OF FLORIDA v. FLORIDA BOARD OF REGENTS, 585 So. 2d 991 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . Furthermore, section 447.509(1)(c) prohibits employee organizations or their representatives from “instigating . . .

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS- HILLSBOROUGH, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, 584 So. 2d 62 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . AFT-H appeals PERC’s ruling as to the lounges, arguing first that it erred in interpreting section 447.509 . . .

SCHOOL BOARD OF LEE COUNTY, v. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, 513 So. 2d 1286 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . The right of solicitation and distribution, although limited by section 447.509, is nonetheless a right . . . Section 447.509(3) gives the circuit court jurisdiction to enforce the restrictions in section 447.509 . . . Permissible restrictions on the employee’s right are codified in section 447.509. . . . Section 447.509(l)(a). . . . We hold that section 447.509 is intended to prohibit distribution in working areas at all times, and . . . In the second point, appellant argued that PERC erred by holding that appellant violated section 447.509 . . .

CITY OF TALLAHASSEE, v. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION,, 410 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 1981)

. . . .-401, and 447.509), the City argues that under the district court’s application of article I, section . . .

MANATEE COUNTY, v. FLORIDA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION AFSCME, AFL- CIO,, 387 So. 2d 446 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980)

. . . as alleged in the County’s objections based on unfair labor practices (Sections 447.301(1), (2) and 447.509 . . .

OKALOOSA- WALTON JUNIOR COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, v. FLORIDA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, 372 So. 2d 1378 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

. . . PERC’s definition of those rights is found in two sources: the reverse implications of Section 447.509 . . . Section 447.509(1) provides: (1) Employee organizations, their members, agents, or representatives, or . . . employee solicitation of other employees for organizational purposes is consonant both with Section 447.509 . . . The order before us recognizes the distinction, found both in Section 447.509(1) and in NLRA decisions . . . Section 447.509(l)(a). . . .

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION, v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, LOCAL LODGE NO., 327 So. 2d 43 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1976)

. . . . §§ 447.607 and 447.509 (1974). . E. g., San Diego Building Trades Council v. . . .