- a) The term "Act" shall mean the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act [115 ILCS 5].
- b) This Part incorporates the definitions contained in Section 2 of the Act.
- c) The term "incumbent employee organization" or "incumbent exclusive representative" shall mean the existing exclusive representative of the employees in the bargaining unit.
- d) The term "charging party" shall mean the person who files an unfair labor practice charge.
- e) The term "respondent" shall mean the party named in an unfair labor practice charge or complaint as having allegedly committed the unfair labor practice.
- f) The term "scheduled start of the forthcoming school year" shall mean the first date scheduled for student attendance for that year.
- g) The term "professional instructional personnel" shall mean, in the case of a public school district, any employee whose position requires a certificate issued pursuant to Article 21 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/Art.21].
- h) The term "professional instructional personnel" shall mean in the case of an employer other than a public school district, any employee whose position includes or could include the provision of academic instruction to students.
- i) The term "legal holiday" shall mean a "legal school holiday" as specified in Sec. 24-2 of the School Code (not to include "special holidays" or "commemorative holidays"), or a holiday observed by the Board.
- j) The term "representation petition" shall include both a petition seeking recognition as exclusive representative through an election and a petition seeking recognition as exclusive representative through the Board's card check procedures (majority interest petition).
(Source: Amended at 28 Ill. Reg. 7932, effective May 28, 2004)