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 1        AN ACT concerning educational labor relations.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Educational Labor Relations  Act
 5    is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

 6        (115 ILCS 5/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 1702)
 7        Sec. 2.  Definitions. As used in this Act:
 8        (a)  "Educational   employer"  or  "employer"  means  the
 9    governing body of a public school  district,  combination  of
10    public  school  districts,  including  the  governing body of
11    joint agreements of any type  formed  by  2  or  more  school
12    districts, public community college district or State college
13    or  university,  and any State agency whose major function is
14    providing educational  services.  "Educational  employer"  or
15    "employer"  does  not  include  a  Financial  Oversight Panel
16    created pursuant to Section 1A-8 of the School Code due to  a
17    district violating a financial plan.
18        (b)  "Educational   employee"  or  "employee"  means  any
19    individual, excluding supervisors, managerial,  confidential,
20    short   term   employees,  student,  and  part-time  academic
21    employees of community colleges employed full or part time by
22    an  educational  employer,  but  shall  not  include  elected
23    officials and appointees of the Governor with the advice  and
24    consent  of the Senate, firefighters as defined by subsection
25    (g-1) of Section 3 of the  Illinois  Public  Labor  Relations
26    Act,  and peace officers employed by a State university.  For
27    the purposes of this Act,  part-time  academic  employees  of
28    community  colleges  shall  be defined as those employees who
29    provide less than 6 credit hours of instruction per  academic
30    semester.
31        (c)  "Employee   organization"  or  "labor  organization"
 
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 1    means  an  organization  of  any  kind  in  which  membership
 2    includes educational employees,  and  which  exists  for  the
 3    purpose,  in  whole  or  in  part,  of dealing with employers
 4    concerning  grievances,  employee-employer  disputes,  wages,
 5    rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work, but
 6    shall  not   include   any   organization   which   practices
 7    discrimination  in  membership because of race, color, creed,
 8    age, gender, national origin or political affiliation.
 9        (d)  "Exclusive   representative"   means    the    labor
10    organization  which  has  been  designated  by  the  Illinois
11    Educational  Labor  Relations  Board as the representative of
12    the majority of educational employees in an appropriate unit,
13    or recognized by an educational employer prior to January  1,
14    1984  as  the exclusive representative of the employees in an
15    appropriate unit or, after January 1, 1984, recognized by  an
16    employer  upon  evidence  that  the employee organization has
17    been designated as the exclusive representative by a majority
18    of the employees in an appropriate unit.
19        (e)  "Board"  means  the   Illinois   Educational   Labor
20    Relations Board.
21        (f)  "Regional   Superintendent"   means   the   regional
22    superintendent  of  schools provided for in Articles 3 and 3A
23    of The School Code.
24        (g)  "Supervisor" means any individual  having  authority
25    in  the interests of the employer to hire, transfer, suspend,
26    lay off, recall, promote,  discharge,  reward  or  discipline
27    other  employees  within  the appropriate bargaining unit and
28    adjust their grievances, or  to  effectively  recommend  such
29    action  if  the exercise of such authority is not of a merely
30    routine  or  clerical  nature  but  requires   the   use   of
31    independent  judgment.   The  term "supervisor" includes only
32    those  individuals  who  devote  a  preponderance  of   their
33    employment time to such exercising authority.
34        (h)  "Unfair  labor  practice" or "unfair practice" means
 
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 1    any practice prohibited by Section 14 of this Act.
 2        (i)  "Person"   includes   an   individual,   educational
 3    employee,  educational  employer,  legal  representative,  or
 4    employee organization.
 5        (j)  "Wages"   means   salaries   or   other   forms   of
 6    compensation for services rendered.
 7        (k)  "Professional employee" means,  in  the  case  of  a
 8    public  community college, State college or university, State
 9    agency  whose  major  function   is   providing   educational
10    services,  the Illinois School for the Deaf, and the Illinois
11    School for the Visually Impaired, (1) any employee engaged in
12    work (i) predominantly intellectual and varied  in  character
13    as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical
14    work;  (ii)  involving  the consistent exercise of discretion
15    and judgment in its performance; (iii) of such character that
16    the output produced or  the  result  accomplished  cannot  be
17    standardized  in relation to a given period of time; and (iv)
18    requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science
19    or learning customarily acquired by  a  prolonged  course  of
20    specialized   intellectual   instruction   and  study  in  an
21    institution  of   higher   learning   or   a   hospital,   as
22    distinguished  from  a  general academic education or from an
23    apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine
24    mental, manual, or physical processes; or (2)  any  employee,
25    who (i) has completed the courses of specialized intellectual
26    instruction  and  study described in clause (iv) of paragraph
27    (1) of this subsection, and (ii) is performing  related  work
28    under  the  supervision  of  a professional person to qualify
29    himself or herself to become a  professional  as  defined  in
30    paragraph (l).
31        (l)  "Professional  employee"  means,  in the case of any
32    public school district, or combination  of  school  districts
33    pursuant   to   joint  agreement,  any  employee  who  has  a
34    certificate issued under Article 21 or Section 34-83  of  the
 
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 1    School Code, as now or hereafter amended.
 2        (m)  "Unit"  or  "bargaining  unit"  means  any  group of
 3    employees for which an exclusive representative is selected.
 4        (n)  "Confidential employee" means an employee,  who  (i)
 5    in  the regular course of his or her duties, assists and acts
 6    in  a  confidential  capacity  to  persons   who   formulate,
 7    determine  and  effectuate management policies with regard to
 8    labor relations or who (ii) in the regular course of  his  or
 9    her   duties  has  access  to  information  relating  to  the
10    effectuation  or  review   of   the   employer's   collective
11    bargaining policies.
12        (o)  "Managerial  employee"  means  an  individual who is
13    engaged predominantly in executive and  management  functions
14    and  is  charged  with  the  responsibility  of directing the
15    effectuation of such management policies and practices.
16        (p)  "Craft employee" means a skilled  journeyman,  craft
17    person, and his or her apprentice or helper.
18        (q)  "Short-term employee" is an employee who is employed
19    for  less  than  2  consecutive  calendar  quarters  during a
20    calendar year and who does not have a reasonable  expectation
21    assurance that he or she will be rehired by the same employer
22    for  the same service in a subsequent calendar year.  Nothing
23    in this  subsection  shall  affect  the  employee  status  of
24    individuals  who  were  covered  by  a  collective bargaining
25    agreement on the effective date of  this  amendatory  Act  of
26    1991.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-409, eff. 11-15-95; 89-572, eff. 7-30-96.)

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