All unit managers customarily and regularly direct and supervise the work of substantial numbers of employees in their respective units. Moreover, the decision to perform any manual tasks whatsoever is within the sole discretion of the unit manager. All unit managers are trained at the company's centralized training facility. A portion of their responsibilities is to implement policies and directives emanating from Morrison, Inc. headquarters with regard to such matters as purchasing, payroll, personnel, bookkeeping, menus, and pricing with only generalized supervision. Since corporate policy decisions on these issues change from time to time and since many matters of an emergency or otherwise unusual nature occur in a restaurant, foodservice, or motel operation, the manager's ability to apply general corporate policy to specific factual situations requires special intellectual abilities and interpersonal skills.
All unit managers exercise discretionary authority each day in their operations.
Unit managers, as opposed to hourly paid employees, are promoted to the higher level supervisory positions of the foregoing entities. Based on the foregoing description of Morrison's unit managers, the Commission concludes that these employees are executive and administrative personnel for purposes of the Act and Commission regulations. Accordingly, they may be solicited for contributions to MPAC subject to the requirements of the Act. This response constitutes an advisory opinion concerning the application of a general rule of law stated in the Act, or prescribed as a Commission regulation, to the specific factual situation set forth in your request. See 2 U.S.C. SS 437f.