2005 Minnesota Statutes - 354D.01 — Definitions.

     354D.01 Definitions. 


    Subdivision 1.    Terms.  Unless the language or context 
 clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended, the 
 following terms have the meanings given. 


    Subd. 2.    Individual retirement account plan or plan.  
 "Individual retirement account plan" or "plan" means the 
 individual retirement account plan established by sections 
 354B.20 to 354B.30. 


    Subd. 3.    Covered employment.  "Covered employment" 
 means employment as an eligible employee as defined under 
 section 354D.02, subdivision 2. 


    Subd. 4.    Professional employee.  "Professional 
 employee" means an employee who is engaged in work that: 


    (1) is predominantly intellectual and varied in character 
 as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical; 


    (2) involves discretion and judgment in its performance; 


    (3) cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of 
 time; and 


    (4) requires advance knowledge in a field of science or 
 learning usually acquired by long study in an institution of 
 higher learning or hospital. 


    Subd. 5.    Supervisory employee.  "Supervisory employee"
 means an employee having the authority to hire, transfer, 
 suspend, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline 
 employees, direct the work of employees, or adjust employees' 
 grievances on behalf of the employer.  To be included as a 
 supervisory function, the exercise of the authority by the 
 employee may not be merely routine or clerical in nature but 
 must require the use of independent judgment. 


    HIST: 1994 c 508 art 2 s 1; 1995 c 141 art 4 s 30; 1996 c 305 
 art 1 s 90