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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 3 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (5 ILCS 315/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1603)
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7 | Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | context
otherwise requires:
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9 | (a) "Board" means the Illinois
Labor Relations Board or, | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | with respect to a matter over which the
jurisdiction of the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Board is assigned to the State Panel or the Local Panel
under | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Section 5, the panel having jurisdiction over the matter.
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13 | (b) "Collective bargaining" means bargaining over terms | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | and conditions
of employment, including hours, wages, and other | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | conditions of employment,
as detailed in Section 7 and which | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | are not excluded by Section 4.
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17 | (c) "Confidential employee" means an employee who, in the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | regular course
of his or her duties, assists and acts in a | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | confidential capacity to persons
who formulate, determine, and | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | effectuate management policies with regard
to labor relations | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | or who, in the regular course of his or her duties, has
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22 | authorized access to information relating to the effectuation
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23 | or review of the employer's collective bargaining policies.
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1 | (d) "Craft employees" means skilled journeymen, crafts | ||||||
2 | persons, and their
apprentices and helpers.
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3 | (e) "Essential services employees" means those public | ||||||
4 | employees
performing functions so essential that the | ||||||
5 | interruption or termination of
the function will constitute a | ||||||
6 | clear and present danger to the health and
safety of the | ||||||
7 | persons in the affected community.
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8 | (f) "Exclusive representative", except with respect to | ||||||
9 | non-State fire
fighters and paramedics employed by fire | ||||||
10 | departments and fire protection
districts, non-State peace | ||||||
11 | officers, and peace officers in the
Department of State Police, | ||||||
12 | means the labor organization that has
been (i) designated by | ||||||
13 | the Board as the representative of a majority of public
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14 | employees in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with | ||||||
15 | the procedures
contained in this Act, (ii) historically
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16 | recognized by the State of Illinois or
any political | ||||||
17 | subdivision of the State before July 1, 1984
(the effective | ||||||
18 | date of this
Act) as the exclusive representative of the | ||||||
19 | employees in an appropriate
bargaining unit, (iii) after July | ||||||
20 | 1, 1984 (the
effective date of this Act) recognized by an
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21 | employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the labor
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22 | organization has been designated as the exclusive | ||||||
23 | representative by a
majority of the employees in an appropriate | ||||||
24 | bargaining unit;
(iv) recognized as the exclusive | ||||||
25 | representative of personal care attendants
or personal
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26 | assistants under Executive Order 2003-8 prior to the effective |
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1 | date of this
amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly, and | ||||||
2 | the organization shall be considered to
be the
exclusive | ||||||
3 | representative of the personal care attendants or personal | ||||||
4 | assistants
as defined
in this Section; or (v) recognized as the | ||||||
5 | exclusive representative of child and day care home providers, | ||||||
6 | including licensed and license exempt providers, pursuant to an | ||||||
7 | election held under Executive Order 2005-1 prior to the | ||||||
8 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | ||||||
9 | Assembly, and the organization shall be considered to be the | ||||||
10 | exclusive representative of the child and day care home | ||||||
11 | providers as defined in this Section.
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12 | With respect to non-State fire fighters and paramedics | ||||||
13 | employed by fire
departments and fire protection districts, | ||||||
14 | non-State peace officers, and
peace officers in the Department | ||||||
15 | of State Police,
"exclusive representative" means the labor | ||||||
16 | organization that has
been (i) designated by the Board as the | ||||||
17 | representative of a majority of peace
officers or fire fighters | ||||||
18 | in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance
with the | ||||||
19 | procedures contained in this Act, (ii)
historically recognized
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20 | by the State of Illinois or any political subdivision of the | ||||||
21 | State before
January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this | ||||||
22 | amendatory Act of 1985) as the exclusive
representative by a | ||||||
23 | majority of the peace officers or fire fighters in an
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24 | appropriate bargaining unit, or (iii) after January 1,
1986 | ||||||
25 | (the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1985) recognized | ||||||
26 | by an employer upon evidence, acceptable to the
Board, that the |
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1 | labor organization has been designated as the exclusive
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2 | representative by a majority of the peace officers or fire | ||||||
3 | fighters in an
appropriate bargaining unit.
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4 | (g) "Fair share agreement" means an agreement between the | ||||||
5 | employer and
an employee organization under which all or any of | ||||||
6 | the employees in a
collective bargaining unit are required to | ||||||
7 | pay their proportionate share of
the costs of the collective | ||||||
8 | bargaining process, contract administration, and
pursuing | ||||||
9 | matters affecting wages, hours, and other conditions of | ||||||
10 | employment,
but not to exceed the amount of dues uniformly | ||||||
11 | required of members. The
amount certified by the exclusive | ||||||
12 | representative shall not include any fees
for contributions | ||||||
13 | related to the election or support of any candidate for
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14 | political office. Nothing in this subsection (g) shall
preclude | ||||||
15 | an employee from making
voluntary political contributions in | ||||||
16 | conjunction with his or her fair share
payment.
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17 | (g-1) "Fire fighter" means, for the purposes of this Act | ||||||
18 | only, any
person who has been or is hereafter appointed to a | ||||||
19 | fire department or fire
protection district or employed by a | ||||||
20 | state university and sworn or
commissioned to perform fire | ||||||
21 | fighter duties or paramedic duties, except that the
following | ||||||
22 | persons are not included: part-time fire fighters,
auxiliary, | ||||||
23 | reserve or voluntary fire fighters, including paid on-call fire
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24 | fighters, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of | ||||||
25 | a fire
department or fire protection district who are not | ||||||
26 | routinely expected to
perform fire fighter duties, or elected |
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1 | officials.
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2 | (g-2) "General Assembly of the State of Illinois" means the
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3 | legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
4 | as provided
for under Article IV of the Constitution of the | ||||||
5 | State of Illinois, and
includes but is not limited to the House | ||||||
6 | of Representatives, the Senate,
the Speaker of the House of | ||||||
7 | Representatives, the Minority Leader of the
House of | ||||||
8 | Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority | ||||||
9 | Leader
of the Senate, the Joint Committee on Legislative | ||||||
10 | Support Services and any
legislative support services agency | ||||||
11 | listed in the Legislative Commission
Reorganization Act of | ||||||
12 | 1984.
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13 | (h) "Governing body" means, in the case of the State, the | ||||||
14 | State Panel of
the Illinois Labor Relations Board, the Director | ||||||
15 | of the Department of Central
Management Services, and the | ||||||
16 | Director of the Department of Labor; the county
board in the | ||||||
17 | case of a county; the corporate authorities in the case of a
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18 | municipality; and the appropriate body authorized to provide | ||||||
19 | for expenditures
of its funds in the case of any other unit of | ||||||
20 | government.
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21 | (i) "Labor organization" means any organization in which | ||||||
22 | public employees
participate and that exists for the purpose, | ||||||
23 | in whole or in part, of dealing
with a public employer | ||||||
24 | concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions
of | ||||||
25 | employment, including the settlement of grievances.
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26 | (j) "Managerial employee" means an individual who is |
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1 | engaged
predominantly in executive and management functions | ||||||
2 | and is charged with the
responsibility of directing the | ||||||
3 | effectuation of management policies
and practices.
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4 | (k) "Peace officer" means, for the purposes of this Act | ||||||
5 | only, any
persons who have been or are hereafter appointed to a | ||||||
6 | police force,
department, or agency and sworn or commissioned | ||||||
7 | to perform police duties,
except that the following persons are | ||||||
8 | not
included: part-time police
officers, special police | ||||||
9 | officers, auxiliary police as defined by Section
3.1-30-20 of | ||||||
10 | the Illinois Municipal Code, night watchmen, "merchant | ||||||
11 | police",
court security officers as defined by Section 3-6012.1 | ||||||
12 | of the Counties
Code,
temporary employees, traffic guards or | ||||||
13 | wardens, civilian parking meter and
parking facilities | ||||||
14 | personnel or other individuals specially appointed to
aid or | ||||||
15 | direct traffic at or near schools or public functions or to aid | ||||||
16 | in
civil defense or disaster, parking enforcement employees who | ||||||
17 | are not
commissioned as peace officers and who are not armed | ||||||
18 | and who are not
routinely expected to effect arrests, parking | ||||||
19 | lot attendants, clerks and
dispatchers or other civilian | ||||||
20 | employees of a police department who are not
routinely expected | ||||||
21 | to effect arrests, or elected officials.
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22 | (l) "Person" includes one or more individuals, labor | ||||||
23 | organizations, public
employees, associations, corporations, | ||||||
24 | legal representatives, trustees,
trustees in bankruptcy, | ||||||
25 | receivers, or the State of Illinois or any political
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26 | subdivision of the State or governing body, but does not |
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1 | include the General
Assembly of the State of Illinois or any | ||||||
2 | individual employed by the General
Assembly of the State of | ||||||
3 | Illinois.
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4 | (m) "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in | ||||||
5 | work predominantly
intellectual and varied in character rather | ||||||
6 | than routine mental, manual,
mechanical or physical work; | ||||||
7 | involving the consistent exercise of discretion
and adjustment | ||||||
8 | in its performance; of such a character that the output | ||||||
9 | produced
or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in | ||||||
10 | relation to a given
period of time; and requiring advanced | ||||||
11 | knowledge in a field of science or
learning customarily | ||||||
12 | acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual
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13 | instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a | ||||||
14 | hospital,
as distinguished from a general academic education or | ||||||
15 | from apprenticeship
or from training in the performance of | ||||||
16 | routine mental, manual, or physical
processes; or any employee | ||||||
17 | who has completed the courses of specialized
intellectual | ||||||
18 | instruction and study prescribed in this subsection (m) and is
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19 | performing related
work under the supervision of a professional | ||||||
20 | person to qualify to become
a professional employee as defined | ||||||
21 | in this subsection (m).
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22 | (n) "Public employee" or "employee", for the purposes of | ||||||
23 | this Act, means
any individual employed by a public employer, | ||||||
24 | including (i) interns and residents
at public hospitals, (ii) | ||||||
25 | as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | ||||||
26 | General
Assembly, but not
before, personal care attendants and |
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1 | personal assistants working under the Home
Services
Program | ||||||
2 | under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, | ||||||
3 | subject to
the
limitations set forth in this Act and in the | ||||||
4 | Disabled Persons Rehabilitation
Act,
and (iii) as of the | ||||||
5 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | ||||||
6 | Assembly, but not before, child and day care home providers | ||||||
7 | participating in the child care assistance program under | ||||||
8 | Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to the | ||||||
9 | limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of the | ||||||
10 | Illinois Public Aid Code, but excluding all of the following: | ||||||
11 | employees of the
General Assembly of the State of Illinois; | ||||||
12 | elected officials; executive
heads of a department; members of | ||||||
13 | boards or commissions; the Executive
Inspectors General; any | ||||||
14 | special Executive Inspectors General; employees of each
Office | ||||||
15 | of an Executive Inspector General;
commissioners and employees | ||||||
16 | of the Executive Ethics Commission; the Auditor
General's | ||||||
17 | Inspector General; employees of the Office of the Auditor | ||||||
18 | General's
Inspector General; the Legislative Inspector | ||||||
19 | General; any special Legislative
Inspectors General; employees | ||||||
20 | of the Office
of the Legislative Inspector General;
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21 | commissioners and employees of the Legislative Ethics | ||||||
22 | Commission;
employees
of any
agency, board or commission | ||||||
23 | created by this Act; employees appointed to
State positions of | ||||||
24 | a temporary or emergency nature; all employees of school
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25 | districts and higher education institutions except | ||||||
26 | firefighters and peace
officers employed
by a state university; |
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1 | managerial employees; short-term employees;
confidential | ||||||
2 | employees; independent contractors; and supervisors except as
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3 | provided in this Act.
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4 | Personal care attendants and personal assistants shall not | ||||||
5 | be considered
public
employees for any purposes not | ||||||
6 | specifically provided for in the amendatory Act
of the
93rd | ||||||
7 | General Assembly, including but not limited to, purposes of | ||||||
8 | vicarious
liability in tort
and purposes of statutory | ||||||
9 | retirement or health insurance benefits. Personal
care
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10 | attendants and personal assistants shall not be covered by the | ||||||
11 | State Employees
Group
Insurance Act of 1971 (5 ILCS 375/).
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12 | Child and day care home providers shall not be considered | ||||||
13 | public employees for any purposes not specifically provided for | ||||||
14 | in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, including | ||||||
15 | but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and | ||||||
16 | purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. | ||||||
17 | Child and day care home providers shall not be covered by the | ||||||
18 | State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. | ||||||
19 | Notwithstanding Section 9, subsection (c), or any other | ||||||
20 | provisions of
this Act, all peace officers above the rank of | ||||||
21 | captain in
municipalities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants | ||||||
22 | and all officers in the Illinois State Police above the rank of | ||||||
23 | captain shall be excluded
from this Act.
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24 | (o) Except as otherwise in subsection (o-5), "public | ||||||
25 | employer" or "employer" means the State of Illinois; any
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26 | political subdivision of the State, unit of local government or |
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1 | school
district; authorities including departments, divisions, | ||||||
2 | bureaus, boards,
commissions, or other agencies of the | ||||||
3 | foregoing entities; and any person
acting within the scope of | ||||||
4 | his or her authority, express or implied, on
behalf of those | ||||||
5 | entities in dealing with its employees.
As of the effective | ||||||
6 | date of the amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly,
but | ||||||
7 | not
before, the State of Illinois shall be considered the | ||||||
8 | employer of the personal
care
attendants and personal | ||||||
9 | assistants working under the Home Services Program
under
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10 | Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, subject | ||||||
11 | to the
limitations set forth
in this Act and in the Disabled | ||||||
12 | Persons Rehabilitation Act. The State shall not
be
considered | ||||||
13 | to be the employer of personal care attendants and personal
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14 | assistants for any
purposes not specifically provided for in | ||||||
15 | this amendatory Act of the 93rd
General
Assembly, including but | ||||||
16 | not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort
and
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17 | purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. | ||||||
18 | Personal care
attendants
and personal assistants shall not be | ||||||
19 | covered by the State Employees Group
Insurance Act of 1971
(5 | ||||||
20 | ILCS 375/).
As of the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
21 | the 94th General Assembly but not before, the State of Illinois | ||||||
22 | shall be considered the employer of the day and child care home | ||||||
23 | providers participating in the child care assistance program | ||||||
24 | under Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to | ||||||
25 | the limitations set forth in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of | ||||||
26 | the Illinois Public Aid Code. The State shall not be considered |
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1 | to be the employer of child and day care home providers for any | ||||||
2 | purposes not specifically provided for in this amendatory Act | ||||||
3 | of the 94th General Assembly, including but not limited to, | ||||||
4 | purposes of vicarious liability in tort and purposes of | ||||||
5 | statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. Child and | ||||||
6 | day care home providers shall not be covered by the State | ||||||
7 | Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. | ||||||
8 | "Public employer" or
"employer" as used in this Act, | ||||||
9 | however, does not
mean and shall not include the General | ||||||
10 | Assembly of the State of Illinois,
the Executive Ethics | ||||||
11 | Commission, the Offices of the Executive Inspectors
General, | ||||||
12 | the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the | ||||||
13 | Legislative
Inspector General, the Office of the Auditor | ||||||
14 | General's Inspector General,
and educational employers or | ||||||
15 | employers as defined in the Illinois
Educational Labor | ||||||
16 | Relations Act, except with respect to a state university in
its | ||||||
17 | employment of firefighters and peace officers. County boards | ||||||
18 | and county
sheriffs shall be
designated as joint or | ||||||
19 | co-employers of county peace officers appointed
under the | ||||||
20 | authority of a county sheriff. Nothing in this subsection
(o) | ||||||
21 | shall be construed
to prevent the State Panel or the Local | ||||||
22 | Panel
from determining that employers are joint or | ||||||
23 | co-employers.
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24 | (o-5) With respect to
wages, fringe
benefits, hours, | ||||||
25 | holidays, vacations, proficiency
examinations, sick leave, and | ||||||
26 | other conditions of
employment, the public employer of public |
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1 | employees who are court reporters, as
defined in the Court | ||||||
2 | Reporters Act, shall be determined as
follows:
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3 | (1) For court reporters employed by the Cook County | ||||||
4 | Judicial
Circuit, the chief judge of the Cook County | ||||||
5 | Circuit
Court is the public employer and employer | ||||||
6 | representative.
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7 | (2) For court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th, | ||||||
8 | 19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial
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9 | circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those | ||||||
10 | circuits, acting
jointly by majority vote, is the public | ||||||
11 | employer and employer representative.
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12 | (3) For court reporters employed by all other judicial | ||||||
13 | circuits,
a group consisting of the chief judges of those | ||||||
14 | circuits, acting jointly by
majority vote, is the public | ||||||
15 | employer and employer representative.
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16 | (p) "Security employee" means an employee who is | ||||||
17 | responsible for the
supervision and control of inmates at | ||||||
18 | correctional facilities. The term
also includes other | ||||||
19 | non-security employees in bargaining units having the
majority | ||||||
20 | of employees being responsible for the supervision and control | ||||||
21 | of
inmates at correctional facilities.
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22 | (q) "Short-term employee" means an employee who is employed | ||||||
23 | for less
than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar | ||||||
24 | year and who does
not have a reasonable assurance that he or | ||||||
25 | she will be rehired by the
same employer for the same service | ||||||
26 | in a subsequent calendar year.
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1 | (r) "Supervisor" is an employee whose principal work is | ||||||
2 | substantially
different from that of his or her subordinates | ||||||
3 | and who has authority, in the
interest of the employer, to | ||||||
4 | hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall,
promote, discharge, | ||||||
5 | direct, reward, or discipline employees, to adjust
their | ||||||
6 | grievances, or to effectively recommend any of those actions, | ||||||
7 | if the
exercise
of that authority is not of a merely routine or | ||||||
8 | clerical nature, but
requires the consistent use of independent | ||||||
9 | judgment. Except with respect to
police employment, the term | ||||||
10 | "supervisor" includes only those individuals
who devote a | ||||||
11 | preponderance of their employment time to exercising that
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12 | authority, State supervisors notwithstanding. In addition, in | ||||||
13 | determining
supervisory status in police employment, rank | ||||||
14 | shall not be determinative.
The Board shall consider, as | ||||||
15 | evidence of bargaining unit inclusion or
exclusion, the common | ||||||
16 | law enforcement policies and relationships between
police | ||||||
17 | officer ranks and certification under applicable civil service | ||||||
18 | law,
ordinances, personnel codes, or Division 2.1 of Article 10 | ||||||
19 | of the Illinois
Municipal Code, but these factors shall not
be | ||||||
20 | the sole or predominant factors considered by the Board in | ||||||
21 | determining
police supervisory status.
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22 | Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, | ||||||
23 | in determining
supervisory status in fire fighter employment, | ||||||
24 | no fire fighter shall be
excluded as a supervisor who has | ||||||
25 | established representation rights under
Section 9 of this Act. | ||||||
26 | Further, in new fire fighter units, employees shall
consist of |
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1 | fire fighters of the rank of company officer and below. If a | ||||||
2 | company officer otherwise qualifies as a supervisor under the | ||||||
3 | preceding paragraph, however, he or she shall
not be included | ||||||
4 | in the fire fighter
unit. If there is no rank between that of | ||||||
5 | chief and the
highest company officer, the employer may | ||||||
6 | designate a position on each
shift as a Shift Commander, and | ||||||
7 | the persons occupying those positions shall
be supervisors. All | ||||||
8 | other ranks above that of company officer shall be
supervisors.
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9 | (s) (1) "Unit" means a class of jobs or positions that are | ||||||
10 | held by
employees whose collective interests may suitably | ||||||
11 | be represented by a labor
organization for collective | ||||||
12 | bargaining. Except with respect to non-State fire
fighters | ||||||
13 | and paramedics employed by fire departments and fire | ||||||
14 | protection
districts, non-State peace officers, and peace | ||||||
15 | officers in the Department of
State Police, a bargaining | ||||||
16 | unit determined by the Board shall not include both
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17 | employees and supervisors, or supervisors only, except as | ||||||
18 | provided in paragraph
(2) of this subsection (s) and except | ||||||
19 | for bargaining units in existence on July
1, 1984 (the | ||||||
20 | effective date of this Act). With respect to non-State fire
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21 | fighters and paramedics employed by fire departments and | ||||||
22 | fire protection
districts, non-State peace officers, and | ||||||
23 | peace officers in the Department of
State Police, a | ||||||
24 | bargaining unit determined by the Board shall not include | ||||||
25 | both
supervisors and nonsupervisors, or supervisors only, | ||||||
26 | except as provided in
paragraph (2) of this subsection (s) |
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1 | and except for bargaining units in
existence on January 1, | ||||||
2 | 1986 (the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1985). A | ||||||
3 | bargaining unit determined by the Board to contain peace | ||||||
4 | officers
shall contain no employees other than peace | ||||||
5 | officers unless otherwise agreed to
by the employer and the | ||||||
6 | labor organization or labor organizations involved.
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7 | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a | ||||||
8 | bargaining unit, including a
historical bargaining unit, | ||||||
9 | containing sworn peace officers of the Department
of | ||||||
10 | Natural Resources (formerly designated the Department of | ||||||
11 | Conservation) shall
contain no employees other than such | ||||||
12 | sworn peace officers upon the effective
date of this | ||||||
13 | amendatory Act of 1990 or upon the expiration date of any
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14 | collective bargaining agreement in effect upon the | ||||||
15 | effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1990 covering both | ||||||
16 | such sworn peace officers and other
employees.
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17 | (2) Notwithstanding the exclusion of supervisors from | ||||||
18 | bargaining units
as provided in paragraph (1) of this | ||||||
19 | subsection (s), a public
employer may agree to permit its | ||||||
20 | supervisory employees to form bargaining units
and may | ||||||
21 | bargain with those units. This Act shall apply if the | ||||||
22 | public employer
chooses to bargain under this subsection.
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23 | (3) Public employees who are court reporters, as | ||||||
24 | defined
in the Court Reporters Act,
shall be divided into 3 | ||||||
25 | units for collective bargaining purposes. One unit
shall be | ||||||
26 | court reporters employed by the Cook County Judicial |
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1 | Circuit; one
unit shall be court reporters employed by the | ||||||
2 | 12th, 18th, 19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the | ||||||
3 | 22nd judicial
circuits; and one unit shall be court | ||||||
4 | reporters employed by all other
judicial circuits.
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5 | (Source: P.A. 93-204, eff. 7-16-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; | ||||||
6 | 94-98, eff. 7-1-05; 94-320, eff. 1-1-06; revised 8-19-05.)
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