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92_HB0913

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.

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

 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)
 7        Sec. 3.  Definitions.  As used in this  Act,  unless  the
 8    context otherwise requires:
 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.
13        (b)  "Collective bargaining" means bargaining over  terms
14    and  conditions  of  employment,  including hours, wages, and
15    other conditions of employment, as detailed in Section 7  and
16    which are not excluded by Section 4.
17        (c)  "Confidential  employee"  means  an employee who, in
18    the regular course of his or her duties, assists and acts  in
19    a  confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine,
20    and effectuate  management  policies  with  regard  to  labor
21    relations or who, in the regular course of his or her duties,
22    has   authorized   access  to  information  relating  to  the
23    effectuation  or  review   of   the   employer's   collective
24    bargaining policies.
25        (d)  "Craft  employees"  means skilled journeymen, crafts
26    persons, and their apprentices and helpers.
27        (e)  "Essential services employees"  means  those  public
28    employees   performing   functions   so  essential  that  the
29    interruption or termination of the function will constitute a
30    clear and present danger to the  health  and  safety  of  the
31    persons in the affected community.
 
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 1        (f)  "Exclusive  representative",  except with respect to
 2    non-State fire  fighters  and  paramedics  employed  by  fire
 3    departments  and  fire  protection districts, non-State peace
 4    officers, and peace  officers  in  the  Department  of  State
 5    Police,  means  the  labor  organization  that  has  been (i)
 6    designated by the Board as the representative of  a  majority
 7    of  public  employees  in  an  appropriate bargaining unit in
 8    accordance with the procedures contained in  this  Act,  (ii)
 9    historically  recognized  by  the  State  of  Illinois or any
10    political subdivision of the State before July 1,  1984  (the
11    effective  date  of this Act) as the exclusive representative
12    of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit, or  (iii)
13    after   July  1,  1984  (the  effective  date  of  this  Act)
14    recognized by an employer upon evidence,  acceptable  to  the
15    Board, that the labor organization has been designated as the
16    exclusive representative by a majority of the employees in an
17    appropriate bargaining unit.
18        With  respect  to  non-State fire fighters and paramedics
19    employed by fire departments and fire  protection  districts,
20    non-State   peace   officers,   and  peace  officers  in  the
21    Department of State Police, "exclusive representative"  means
22    the  labor  organization  that has been (i) designated by the
23    Board as the representative of a majority of  peace  officers
24    or  fire  fighters  in  an  appropriate  bargaining  unit  in
25    accordance  with  the  procedures contained in this Act, (ii)
26    historically recognized by  the  State  of  Illinois  or  any
27    political  subdivision  of  the  State before January 1, 1986
28    (the effective date of this amendatory Act of  1985)  as  the
29    exclusive  representative by a majority of the peace officers
30    or fire fighters in an appropriate bargaining unit, or  (iii)
31    after  January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this amendatory
32    Act  of  1985)  recognized  by  an  employer  upon  evidence,
33    acceptable to the Board, that the labor organization has been
34    designated as the exclusive representative by a  majority  of
 
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 1    the  peace  officers  or  fire  fighters  in  an  appropriate
 2    bargaining unit.
 3        (g)  "Fair  share  agreement"  means an agreement between
 4    the employer and an employee organization under which all  or
 5    any  of  the  employees  in  a collective bargaining unit are
 6    required to pay their proportionate share of the costs of the
 7    collective bargaining process, contract  administration,  and
 8    pursuing matters affecting wages, hours, and other conditions
 9    of employment, but not to exceed the amount of dues uniformly
10    required  of  members.  The amount certified by the exclusive
11    representative shall not include any fees  for  contributions
12    related  to  the  election  or  support  of any candidate for
13    political  office.  Nothing  in  this  subsection  (g)  shall
14    preclude  an  employee  from   making   voluntary   political
15    contributions  in  conjunction  with  his  or  her fair share
16    payment.
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
24    fire fighters,  clerks  and  dispatchers  or  other  civilian
25    employees  of  a  fire department or fire protection district
26    who are  not  routinely  expected  to  perform  fire  fighter
27    duties, or elected officials.
28        (g-2)  "General  Assembly of the State of Illinois" means
29    the legislative branch of the  government  of  the  State  of
30    Illinois,   as   provided   for   under  Article  IV  of  the
31    Constitution of the State of Illinois, and  includes  but  is
32    not  limited to the House of Representatives, the Senate, the
33    Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority  Leader
34    of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate,
 
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 1    the  Minority  Leader  of  the Senate, the Joint Committee on
 2    Legislative Support  Services  and  any  legislative  support
 3    services   agency   listed   in  the  Legislative  Commission
 4    Reorganization Act of 1984.
 5        (h)  "Governing body" means, in the case  of  the  State,
 6    the  State  Panel  of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, the
 7    Director of the Department of  Central  Management  Services,
 8    and the Director of the Department of Labor; the county board
 9    in  the  case  of  a county; the corporate authorities in the
10    case of a municipality; and the appropriate  body  authorized
11    to  provide  for expenditures of its funds in the case of any
12    other unit of government.
13        (i)  "Labor organization" means any organization in which
14    public employees participate and that exists for the purpose,
15    in whole or in  part,  of  dealing  with  a  public  employer
16    concerning  wages,  hours,  and other terms and conditions of
17    employment, including the settlement of grievances.
18        (j)  "Managerial employee" means  an  individual  who  is
19    engaged  predominantly  in executive and management functions
20    and is charged  with  the  responsibility  of  directing  the
21    effectuation   of   management  policies  and  practices.  No
22    employee may be considered a "managerial employee" because he
23    or she belongs to  a  classification  of  employees  to  whom
24    executive  and  management functions may be delegated without
25    proof that the employee has actually been delegated executive
26    and management functions on a regular basis.  No employee may
27    be considered a  "managerial  employee"  because  he  or  she
28    performs  professional  duties.  In determining an employee's
29    status as a "managerial employee", the Board  shall  consider
30    the employee's actual job duties and responsibilities and the
31    extent  to which the employee has actual authority concerning
32    the overall  operations  and  governance  of  the  employee's
33    office or workplace.
34        (k)  "Peace  officer" means, for the purposes of this Act
 
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 1    only, any persons who have been or are hereafter appointed to
 2    a  police  force,  department,  or  agency   and   sworn   or
 3    commissioned  to  perform  police  duties,  except  that  the
 4    following   persons   are   not  included:  part-time  police
 5    officers,  special  police  officers,  auxiliary  police   as
 6    defined  by Section 3.1-30-20 of the Illinois Municipal Code,
 7    night watchmen, "merchant police", court security officers as
 8    defined by Section 3-6012.1 of the Counties  Code,  temporary
 9    employees,  traffic guards or wardens, civilian parking meter
10    and  parking  facilities  personnel  or   other   individuals
11    specially  appointed  to  aid  or  direct  traffic at or near
12    schools or public functions or to aid  in  civil  defense  or
13    disaster,   parking   enforcement   employees   who  are  not
14    commissioned as peace officers and who are not armed and  who
15    are  not  routinely  expected  to effect arrests, parking lot
16    attendants,  clerks  and  dispatchers   or   other   civilian
17    employees  of  a  police  department  who  are  not routinely
18    expected to effect arrests, or elected officials.
19        (l)  "Person" includes one  or  more  individuals,  labor
20    organizations,  public employees, associations, corporations,
21    legal  representatives,  trustees,  trustees  in  bankruptcy,
22    receivers,  or  the  State  of  Illinois  or  any   political
23    subdivision  of  the  State  or  governing body, but does not
24    include the General Assembly of the State of Illinois or  any
25    individual  employed  by the General Assembly of the State of
26    Illinois.
27        (m)  "Professional employee" means any  employee  engaged
28    in  work  predominantly  intellectual and varied in character
29    rather than routine mental, manual,  mechanical  or  physical
30    work;  involving  the  consistent  exercise of discretion and
31    adjustment in its performance; of such a character  that  the
32    output   produced   or  the  result  accomplished  cannot  be
33    standardized in relation to  a  given  period  of  time;  and
34    requiring  advanced  knowledge  in  a  field  of  science  or
 
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 1    learning  customarily  acquired  by  a  prolonged  course  of
 2    specialized   intellectual   instruction   and  study  in  an
 3    institution  of   higher   learning   or   a   hospital,   as
 4    distinguished  from  a  general  academic  education  or from
 5    apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine
 6    mental, manual, or physical processes; or  any  employee  who
 7    has   completed   the  courses  of  specialized  intellectual
 8    instruction and study prescribed in this subsection  (m)  and
 9    is  performing  related  work  under  the  supervision  of  a
10    professional  person  to  qualify  to  become  a professional
11    employee as defined in this subsection (m).
12        (n)  "Public employee" or "employee", for the purposes of
13    this Act, means any individual employed by a public employer,
14    including interns and  residents  at  public  hospitals,  but
15    excluding  all  of  the  following:  employees of the General
16    Assembly  of  the  State  of  Illinois;  elected   officials;
17    executive  heads  of  a  department;  members  of  boards  or
18    commissions;  employees  of  any  agency, board or commission
19    created by this Act; employees appointed to  State  positions
20    of  a  temporary or emergency nature; all employees of school
21    districts   and   higher   education   institutions    except
22    firefighters   and   peace   officers  employed  by  a  state
23    university;  managerial  employees;   short-term   employees;
24    confidential    employees;   independent   contractors;   and
25    supervisors except as provided in this Act.
26        Notwithstanding Section 9, subsection (c), or  any  other
27    provisions  of this Act, all peace officers above the rank of
28    captain  in   municipalities   with   more   than   1,000,000
29    inhabitants shall be excluded from this Act.
30        (o)  "Public  employer"  or "employer" means the State of
31    Illinois; any political subdivision of  the  State,  unit  of
32    local  government  or  school district; authorities including
33    departments,  divisions,  bureaus,  boards,  commissions,  or
34    other agencies of the  foregoing  entities;  and  any  person
 
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 1    acting  within  the scope of his or her authority, express or
 2    implied, on behalf of those  entities  in  dealing  with  its
 3    employees.  "Public  employer"  or "employer" as used in this
 4    Act, however, does not mean and shall not include the General
 5    Assembly of the State of Illinois and  educational  employers
 6    or  employers  as  defined  in the Illinois Educational Labor
 7    Relations Act, except with respect to a state  university  in
 8    its  employment  of  firefighters and peace officers.  County
 9    boards and county sheriffs shall be designated  as  joint  or
10    co-employers  of  county  peace  officers appointed under the
11    authority of a county sheriff.  Nothing  in  this  subsection
12    (o)  shall  be  construed  to  prevent the State Panel or the
13    Local Panel from determining  that  employers  are  joint  or
14    co-employers.
15        (p)  "Security   employee"   means  an  employee  who  is
16    responsible for the supervision and  control  of  inmates  at
17    correctional   facilities.   The  term  also  includes  other
18    non-security  employees  in  bargaining  units   having   the
19    majority  of  employees being responsible for the supervision
20    and control of inmates at correctional facilities.
21        (q)  "Short-term  employee"  means  an  employee  who  is
22    employed for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during
23    a calendar year and who does not have a reasonable  assurance
24    that  he  or she will be rehired by the same employer for the
25    same service in a subsequent calendar year.
26        (r)  "Supervisor" is an employee whose principal work  is
27    substantially  different from that of his or her subordinates
28    and who has authority, in the interest of  the  employer,  to
29    hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge,
30    direct,  reward,  or  discipline  employees,  to adjust their
31    grievances, or to effectively recommend any of those actions,
32    if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely  routine
33    or  clerical  nature,  but  requires  the  consistent  use of
34    independent  judgment.  Except   with   respect   to   police
 
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 1    employment,   the   term  "supervisor"  includes  only  those
 2    individuals who devote a preponderance  of  their  employment
 3    time   to   exercising   that  authority,  State  supervisors
 4    notwithstanding.  In  addition,  in  determining  supervisory
 5    status in police employment, rank shall not be determinative.
 6    The  Board  shall  consider,  as  evidence of bargaining unit
 7    inclusion or exclusion, the common law  enforcement  policies
 8    and   relationships   between   police   officer   ranks  and
 9    certification under applicable civil service law, ordinances,
10    personnel codes,  or  Division  2.1  of  Article  10  of  the
11    Illinois  Municipal  Code, but these factors shall not be the
12    sole or  predominant  factors  considered  by  the  Board  in
13    determining police supervisory status.
14        Notwithstanding   the   provisions   of   the   preceding
15    paragraph,  in determining supervisory status in fire fighter
16    employment, no fire fighter shall be excluded as a supervisor
17    who has established representation rights under Section 9  of
18    this  Act.   Further,  in  new  fire fighter units, employees
19    shall consist of fire fighters of the rank of company officer
20    and below. If a company  officer  otherwise  qualifies  as  a
21    supervisor  under the preceding paragraph, however, he or she
22    shall not be included in the fire fighter unit.  If there  is
23    no  rank  between  that  of  chief  and  the  highest company
24    officer, the employer may designate a position on each  shift
25    as  a  Shift  Commander,  and  the  persons  occupying  those
26    positions  shall  be supervisors.  All other ranks above that
27    of company officer shall be supervisors.
28        (s) (1)  "Unit" means a class of jobs or  positions  that
29        are  held  by  employees  whose  collective interests may
30        suitably be  represented  by  a  labor  organization  for
31        collective  bargaining.  Except with respect to non-State
32        fire fighters and paramedics employed by fire departments
33        and fire protection districts, non-State peace  officers,
34        and  peace  officers in the Department of State Police, a
 
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 1        bargaining unit determined by the Board shall not include
 2        both employees  and  supervisors,  or  supervisors  only,
 3        except  as  provided  in paragraph (2) of this subsection
 4        (s) and except for bargaining units in existence on  July
 5        1,  1984  (the effective date of this Act).  With respect
 6        to non-State fire fighters  and  paramedics  employed  by
 7        fire departments and fire protection districts, non-State
 8        peace  officers,  and peace officers in the Department of
 9        State Police, a bargaining unit determined by  the  Board
10        shall not include both supervisors and nonsupervisors, or
11        supervisors  only, except as provided in paragraph (2) of
12        this subsection (s) and except for  bargaining  units  in
13        existence  on January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this
14        amendatory Act of 1985).  A bargaining unit determined by
15        the Board to contain  peace  officers  shall  contain  no
16        employees  other  than  peace  officers  unless otherwise
17        agreed to by the employer and the labor  organization  or
18        labor  organizations involved.  Notwithstanding any other
19        provision of this Act, a  bargaining  unit,  including  a
20        historical   bargaining   unit,  containing  sworn  peace
21        officers of the Department of Natural Resources (formerly
22        designated the Department of Conservation) shall  contain
23        no  employees  other  than such sworn peace officers upon
24        the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990 or upon
25        the  expiration  date  of   any   collective   bargaining
26        agreement  in  effect  upon  the  effective  date of this
27        amendatory Act of 1990 covering  both  such  sworn  peace
28        officers and other employees.
29             (2)  Notwithstanding  the  exclusion  of supervisors
30        from bargaining units as provided  in  paragraph  (1)  of
31        this  subsection  (s),  a  public  employer  may agree to
32        permit its supervisory employees to form bargaining units
33        and may bargain with those units.  This Act  shall  apply
34        if  the  public  employer  chooses  to bargain under this
 
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 1        subsection.
 2    (Source: P.A.  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;
 3    91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)

 4        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 5    becoming law.

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