Home » Publications » Alerts » The Employee Free Choice Act » Definition of Supervisor

Definition of Supervisor

Release Date: February 09, 2009

Definition of "Supervisor": 

o Now:  "any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment."

o RESPECT Act:  "any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer and for a majority of the individual's worktime, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment."