WATCH LIST: RESPECT Act
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Summary:
The “Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act” ( H.R. 1644; S. 969) would amend the National Labor Relations Act to revise the definition of "supervisor" by requiring the individual to have authority over employees for a majority of the individual's worktime and by removing the requirement of authority to assign other employees and the requirement of authority to responsibly direct the employees.
Amendments in context:
The following reflects the changes in existing statutory wording that would take place if this bill were to become law (changes in red):
When used in this subchapter—
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(11) The term “supervisor” means 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,orresponsibly 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.
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