Lake County Sheriff's Office

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 4, 2019

13-WH-237174 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 4, 2019)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
COUNTY OF LAKE AND SHERIFF OF LAKE
COUNTY
Employer
and Case 13-WH-237174
ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF POLICE UNION
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On March 6, 2019, Illinois Council of Police Union (the Petitioner) filed with the
Regional Director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board a request for
certification of representative as bona fide under Section 7(b) of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 207(b).
On March 13, 2019, the Regional Director for Region 13 served on the parties a
Notice to Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request. No response was
filed. As the Region’s investigation revealed that the Petitioner is the recognized
exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the unit employees,1 the Regional
Director recommended to the Board that the requested certification be issued.
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Illinois Council of Police Union

1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it contains a
copy of the Illinois Labor Relations Board’s Certification of Representative issued on
September 4, 2013, naming the Petitioner as the exclusive representative of the unit
employees.
2
is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of County of Lake and Sheriff of Lake County in the following unit:2
Included: All employees of the County of Lake and Sheriff of Lake County
in the following titles: Deputy Sheriff; Highway Patrol; Detective; Warrant
Process Server; Process Server; Court Security; Radio Dispatcher;
Assistant Radio Dispatcher; Lead Dispatcher Supervisor; Senior Utility
Worker and Magnetometer Operator.
Excluded: Communications Director and all sworn Deputy Sheriffs in the
classification of Sergeants and above, all professional, confidential,
supervisory and managerial employees as defined by the Illinois Public
Labor Relations Act, and all other employees of the County of Lake.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 4, 2019.
By direction of the Board:
/s/ Roxanne Rothschild
Executive Secretary

2
A certificate of representative as bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not
necessarily establish the certified organization’s right to be recognized as the exclusive
bargaining representative under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. See
County of Alameda, 322 NLRB 614 (1996).