In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
A. "Eligible employee" means any individual employed by the county including deputies and sergeants in the sheriff's department. "Eligible employee" does not include confidential, managerial or supervisory employees, officers, and elected officials and peace officers as defined in A.R.S. Section 13-105(29), or lieutenants or captains in the Pima County sheriff's department.
B. "Confidential employee" means an employee who, has access to confidential or discretionary information regarding the formulation of county policy or procedures; or whose functional responsibilities or knowledge concerning employee relations makes the employee's membership in an employee organization incompatible with that employee's duties.
C. "Managerial employee" means an employee, including any elected official, who, is engaged predominantly in executive or management functions or who meets the definition of executive employee set forth in the Department of Labor regulations codified at 29 C.F.R. 541.100.
D. "Predecessor organization" means an organization that has been recognized as an authorized representative of county employees under this chapter, but that desires to transfer its status as authorized representative to a successor organization.
E. "Supervisory employee" means an employee, having authority to hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, recall, promote, discipline or discharge other employees, or to adjust their grievances, or to effectively recommend such action if the exercise of such authority is not of a routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment, as defined in 29 C.F.R. 541.202. The term "supervisor" shall include only those individuals who, pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 541.202, perform a preponderance of the above-specified acts of authority on a day-to-day basis and does not include "lead" persons who direct employee work but lack such authority.
F. "Successor organization" means an organization that a predecessor organization requests succeed the predecessor organization as county employees' authorized representative.
(Ord. 2018-1 § 1 (part), 2018; Ord. 2009-69 § 1 (part), 2009: Ord. 2008-83 § 1 (part), 2008: Ord. 2007-1 § 1 (part), 2007)