(a)
For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1)
“Executive employee” is any management employee with responsibility for the development and execution of the auxiliary organization’s policy.
(2)
“Full-time employee” is a person who is employed in a permanent position for 40 hours per week or for the required number of hours of a particular work shift, whichever is lesser. Persons employed on a temporary, intermittent, irregular time base, or on a limited-term basis, are not full-time employees unless those employees are engaged on a continuing 12-month basis and are employed for 40 hours per week or for the required number of hours of a particular work shift, whichever is the lesser.
(3)
“Temporary employee” is either of the following:
(A)
An employee employed for a research project, workshop, institute, or other special project funded by any grant, contract, or gift.
(B)
An employee whose contract of employment is for a fixed term not exceeding three years.
(b)
The operating agreement approved by the commission pursuant to Section 69522 may include provisions requiring the board of directors of the auxiliary organization to provide salaries, working conditions, and benefits for the full-time employees of the auxiliary organization that are comparable to those provided commission employees performing similar services.