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This bill modifies the existing law regarding labor organizations for supervisory and confidential public employees in Minnesota. Specifically, the bill changes the restrictions on when supervisory employee organizations can act as exclusive representatives. Currently, supervisory employee organizations cannot be certified or act as exclusive representatives if they are affiliated with another employee organization representing non-supervisory employees of the same public employer. The bill removes the specific carve-out for certain types of supervisory employees (such as firefighters, emergency medical service employees, 911 dispatchers, peace officers, correctional facility guards, and hospital employees) and the condition that they not be state or University of Minnesota employees. This means the affiliation restriction will now apply more broadly to all supervisory employee organizations, potentially limiting their ability to represent their members in negotiations. The bill maintains the existing protections that confidential employees and supervisory employees can form their own organizations, but with stricter rules about potential conflicts of interest through organizational affiliations.

Labor and Employment

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF1400&ssn=0&y=2025