The new definition, critics contend, is nonsensical as "it would be highly unusual for any employee, even a Vice President of Human Resources, to spend more than 50% of his or her weekly time doing hiring, firing and disciplining employees" and direction forms the bulk of most supervisor's job responsibilities (RESPECT, 2009, Foster Swift). Approximately 8 million current workers would be declassified from their current supervisory status (RESPECT, 2009, Foster Swift).

In other words, a very large proportion of what would once be considered white collar 'management-level' persons would now be eligible for unionization. "Under current law, a supervisor is considered an agent of management and owes a duty of undivided loyalty to the employer in labor-management relations, such as during union organizing campaigns, grievances, picketing and strikes. That duty would be compromised by the RESPECT Act" (RESPECT, 2009, Foster Swift). The supervisors would have dual loyalty, between labor and...
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