HB5364 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act to clarify requirements for determining "confidential employees," "managerial employees," and "supervisors," specifying that status determinations be based on actual job duties rather than written job descriptions and apply to all public employees.

• Establishes specific criteria for unit clarification petitions, allowing them only when: substantial changes occur in job duties, new titles are logically encompassed in existing units, statutory changes affect bargaining rights, or parties agree to exclude certain positions.

• Modifies Section 21.5 to limit collective bargaining agreements with executive branch constitutional officers to expire no more than 12 months after the first day of their terms of office (changed from "beyond June 30th").

• Provides an exemption allowing salary, wages, and benefits increases to continue on or after the first day of constitutional officers' terms through June 30th of that year when required by the duty to maintain status quo and bargain in good faith.

• Requires the Board to describe bargaining units in job function terms rather than job titles at a party's request, and to include successor titles and newly created positions that perform the same or substantially similar functions.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.