20.4 - EXCLUSIONS.

        20.4  EXCLUSIONS.
         The following public employees shall be excluded from the
      provisions of this chapter:
         1.  Elected officials and persons appointed to fill vacancies in
      elective offices, and members of any board or commission.
         2.  Representatives of a public employer, including the
      administrative officer, director or chief executive officer of a
      public employer or major division thereof as well as the officer's or
      director's deputy, first assistant, and any supervisory employees.
      "Supervisory employee" means any individual having authority in
      the interest of the public employer to hire, transfer, suspend,
      layoff, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline
      other public employees, or the responsibility to direct them, or to
      adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if,
      in connection with the foregoing, exercise of such authority is not
      of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of
      independent judgment.  All school superintendents, assistant
      superintendents, principals and assistant principals shall be deemed
      to be supervisory employees.
         3.  Confidential employees.
         4.  Students working as part-time public employees twenty hours
      per week or less, except graduate or other postgraduate students in
      preparation for a profession who are engaged in academically related
      employment as a teaching, research, or service assistant.
         5.  Temporary public employees employed for a period of four
      months or less.
         6.  Commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Iowa national
      guard.
         7.  Judicial officers, and confidential, professional, or
      supervisory employees of the judicial branch.
         8.  Patients and inmates employed, sentenced or committed to any
      state or local institution.
         9.  Persons employed by the state department of justice, except
      nonsupervisory employees of the consumer advocate division who are
      employed primarily for the purpose of performing technical analysis
      of nonlegal issues.
         10.  Persons employed by the credit union division of the
      department of commerce.
         11.  Persons employed by the banking division of the department of
      commerce.
         12.  The appointee serving as the coordinator of the office of
      renewable fuels and coproducts, as provided in section 159A.3.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 20.4] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 186, § 10012, 10201; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 230; 86 Acts,
      ch 1246, § 612; 89 Acts, ch 158, § 3; 89 Acts, ch 296, § 5; 91 Acts,
      ch 254, § 3; 94 Acts, ch 1119, §9; 98 Acts, ch 1047, § 12; 2007 Acts,
      ch 88, §1
         Referred to in § 12.9, 20.3, 279.23
         See also §12.9