Decision 0032E – San Rafael City Schools

An employee who spends only a small portion of her time typing financial proposals used in negotiations is confidential. i.e., frequency of possession or access to confidential information is not controlling. Confidential information involved need not relate to unit in which the employee in question is contained. Confidential status based on what the disputed individual's work actually entails.

Mere substitution for supervisor without the exercise of supervisory authority does not confer supervisory status. One who spends most of the day doing non-supervisory work and who exercises supervisory authority only in the absence of a superior is not a supervisor.

Mere substitution for a supervisor without the exercise of supervisory authority does not confer supervisory status. One who spends most of the day doing non-supervisory work and who exercises supervisory authority only in the absence of a superior is not a supervisor.