Title: Classifies University Graduate and Research Assistants as "Employees"
Signed by Governor JB Pritzker
Title: Classifies University Graduate and Research Assistants as "Employees"
Vote to pass a bill that classifies graduate students and research assistants at universities as "employees".
Defines “educational employee” or “employee” as any individual, excluding supervisors, managerial, confidential, short term employees, student, and part-time academic employees of community colleges employed full or part time by an educational employer (Sec. 5).
Defines “part-time academic employees of community colleges” as employees who provide less than 3 credit hours of instruction per academic semester (Sec. 5).
Specifies that “student” does not include graduate students who are research assistants primarily performing duties that involve research, graduate assistants primarily performing duties that are pre-professional, graduate students who are teaching assistants primarily performing duties that involve the delivery and support of instruction, or any other graduate assistants (Sec. 5).
Establishes that this Act becomes operative January 1, 2020 (Sec. 99).
Title: Classifies University Graduate and Research Assistants as "Employees"
Vote to pass a bill that classifies graduate students and research assistants at universities as "employees".
Defines “educational employee” or “employee” as any individual, excluding supervisors, managerial, confidential, short term employees, student, and part-time academic employees of community colleges employed full or part time by an educational employer (Sec. 5).
Defines “part-time academic employees of community colleges” as employees who provide less than 3 credit hours of instruction per academic semester (Sec. 5).
Specifies that “student” does not include graduate students who are research assistants primarily performing duties that involve research, graduate assistants primarily performing duties that are pre-professional, graduate students who are teaching assistants primarily performing duties that involve the delivery and support of instruction, or any other graduate assistants (Sec. 5).
Establishes that this Act becomes operative January 1, 2020 (Sec. 99).
Title: Classifies University Graduate and Research Assistants as "Employees"