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That eliminates management from offering benefits via third parties for employees.
It may have been the Texas statute that I read. It has been years, since I read it, but you can bet that the clause was crafted to take away all bargaining leverage from the employee, leaving the "JCs" will all the "cards".
It would also violate the First Amendment (freedom of association) by all workers.
As we all know, the "Bill of Rights" only constrains the Federal government. Some of those rights, have been extended to constrain state governments, by the judicial process of "incorporation".
In a private company, if you squawk, you get a lecture on "at will employment", meaning management does whatever it pleases to you, and your only option is to quit.
Steve