DUES CHECKOFF

dues checkoff: translation

dues checkoff ˌdues ˈcheckoff noun [countable]

when dues for membership of a trade union are taken out of people's wages by their employer and paid directly to the union:

• Unions can't finance benefit plans with union dues checkoffs.

— see also automatic checkoff

dues checkoff UK US noun [U] (also checkoff, automatic checkoff) HR

► the act of automatically taking an amount of money from an employee's pay for membership in a union (= organization that represents workers in a particular industry)