Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes Chicago principals to unionize.

Highlights:

• Defines "supervisor" as any individual having authority in the interests of the employer to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward or discipline other employees within the appropriate bargaining unit and adjust their grievances, or to effectively recommend such action if the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment. The term "supervisor" includes only those individuals who devote a preponderance of their employment time to such exercising authority (Sec. 2.g).

• Defines "managerial employee" as, concerning an educational employer other than an educational employer of a school district organized under Article 34 of the School Code, an individual who has a significant role in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements or who formulates and determines employer-wide management policies and practices (Sec. 2.o).

• Defines "short-term employee" as an employee who is employed for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and who does not have a reasonable expectation that he or she will be rehired by the same employer for the same service in a subsequent calendar year. Nothing in this subsection can affect the employment status of individuals who were covered by a collective bargaining agreement on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1991 (Sec. 2.q).

• Specifies a supervisor is considered an educational employee unless the supervisor is also a managerial employee  (Sec. 2.b).

• Classifies "professional employee", in the case of a public community college, State college or university, state agency whose major function is providing educational services, the Illinois School for the Deaf, and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired as (Sec. 2.k):

• Any employee engaged in work:

• Predominantly intellectual and varied as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work;

• Involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance; 

• Of such character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized concerning a given period; and

• Requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from general academic education or an apprenticeship or training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or 

• Any employee, who:

• Has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and study; and 

• Is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to qualify himself or herself to become a professional.

• Classifies "confidential employee" as an employee, who (Sec. 2.n):

• In the regular course of his or her duties, assists and acts in a confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine and effectuate management policies concerning labor relations; or

• In the regular course of his or her duties has access to information relating to the effectuation or review of the employer's collective bargaining policies.

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