A. “Appropriate unit” means a unit of employee classes or positions established pursuant to Sections 2.52.040 through 2.52.100 of this chapter.

B. “Confidential employee” means an employee, who, in the course of his or her duties, has access to information relating to the town’s administration of employer-employee relations.

C. “Consult/consultation in good faith” means to communicate orally or in writing for the purpose of presenting and obtaining views or advising of intended actions; and as distinguished from meeting and conferring in good faith regarding matters within the required scope of such meet and confer process, does not involve an exchange of proposals and counter-proposals in an endeavor to reach agreement, nor is it subject to Sections 2.52.150 through 2.52.170 of this chapter.

D. “Day” means calendar day, unless expressly stated otherwise.

E. “Employee relations officer” means the city manager or his duly authorized representative.

F. “Impasse” means that the representative of the town and a recognized employee organization have reached a point in their meeting and conferring in good faith where their differences on matters to be included in a memorandum or understanding, and concerning which they are required to meet and confer, remain so substantial and prolonged that further meeting and conferring would be futile.

G. “Management employee” means an employee having responsibility for formulating, administering or managing the implementation of town policies or programs.

H. “Proof of employee support” means (1) an authorization card recently signed and personally dated by an employee, or (2) a verified authorization petition or petitions recently signed and personally dated by an employee, or (3) employee dues deduction authorization, using the payroll register for the period immediately prior to the date a petition is filed under this chapter, except that dues deduction authorizations for more than one employee organization for the account of any one employee shall not be considered as proof of employee support for any employee organization. The only authorization which shall be considered as proof of employee support under this section shall be the authorization last signed by an employee. The words “recently signed” mean within forty-five days prior to the filing of a petition.

I. “Recognized employee organization” means an employee organization which has been formally acknowledged by the town as the employee organization that represents the employees in an appropriate representation unit pursuant to Sections 2.52.040 through 2.52.100 of this chapter.

J. “Supervisory employee” means any employee having authority, in the interest of the town, 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.

K. “Town” means the town of Atherton and, where appropriate in this chapter, refers to the city council or any duly authorized town representative as defined in this chapter. (Ord. 377 § 2, 1980)