HB2489 Summary

• Modifies definitions of "supervisor" and "unit" in the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act to specify that the authority to assign work is not an indication of supervisory status.

• Prohibits bargaining units from including both employees and managerial employees, or managerial employees only, for units recognized after the effective date of this Act.

• Requires the Board to describe bargaining units in terms of job functions rather than job titles at a party's request, and includes positions later filled that perform the same job functions or are successor job titles.

• Mandates that no public employee position shall be excluded from a bargaining unit prior to that position being filled.

• Expands the definition of "managerial employee" to apply to all public employees and clarifies that professional employees exercising discretion on behalf of office holders does not constitute evidence of managerial status.