supervisor
Defined in 4 places across 3 titles of the United States Code.
“supervisor” means an individual employed by an agency having authority in the interest of the agency to hire, direct, assign, promote, reward, transfer, furlough, layoff, recall, suspend, discipline, or remove employees, to adjust their grievances, or to effectively recommend such action, if the exercise of the authority is not merely routine or clerical in nature but requires the consistent exercise of independent judgment, except that, with respect to any unit which includes firefighters or nurses, the term “supervisor” includes only those individuals who devote a preponderance of their employment time to exercising such authority;
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- 1994–present5 U.S.C. § 7103Government Organization and Employees · Definitions; application · in this section
the term “supervisor” has the meaning given such term by section 7103(a)(10); and
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- 2004–present5 U.S.C. § 9801Government Organization and Employees · Definitions · for purposes of this chapter
The term “supervisor” means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, 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.
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- 1994–present29 U.S.C. § 152Labor · Definitions · in this subchapter
The term “supervisor” means the individual in the position of ultimate authority at a Bureau school.
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- 2001–present25 U.S.C. § 2021Indians · Definitions · for the purposes of this chapter