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90_SB0229

      820 ILCS 405/604          from Ch. 48, par. 434
          Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act.   In  the  Section
      concerning  labor  disputes,  provides that an individual who
      becomes totally or partially unemployed due to a stoppage  of
      work   that   exists  because  of  a  labor  dispute  at  the
      individual's place of employment shall, for the  duration  of
      the   dispute  and  regardless  of  any  other  services  the
      individual performs, be considered as last employed  at  that
      place  unless  the  individual  completely  severs his or her
      relationship with that place.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Unemployment  Insurance  Act  by
 2    changing Section 604.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 604 as follows:
 7        (820 ILCS 405/604) (from Ch. 48, par. 434)
 8        Sec.  604.   Labor  dispute.  An  individual   shall   be
 9    ineligible for benefits for any week with respect to which it
10    is  found  that his total or partial unemployment is due to a
11    stoppage of work which exists because of a labor  dispute  at
12    the  factory, establishment, or other premises at which he is
13    or was last  employed.  For  purposes  of  this  Section,  an
14    individual  who  becomes totally or  partially unemployed due
15    to a stoppage of work that exists because of a labor  dispute
16    at  the   factory, establishment, or other premises at which,
17    at  the  time  the  dispute  commences,  the  individual   is
18    employed   shall,   for  the  duration  of  the  dispute  and
19    regardless of any  other  services  the  individual  performs
20    during  the  dispute,  be considered as last employed at that
21    factory,  establishment,  or  other    premises  unless   the
22    individual completely severs his or her relationship with the
23    factory,  establishment, or other  premises.  The term "labor
24    dispute" does not include an  individual's  refusal  to  work
25    because of his employer's failure to pay accrued earned wages
26    within 10 working days from the date due, or to pay any other
27    uncontested  accrued obligation arising out of his employment
28    within 10 working days from the date due.
29        For the purpose of disqualification  under  this  Section
30    the  term  "labor  dispute"  does not include a lockout by an
31    employer for any week during which (1) the  employer  refuses
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 1    to  meet  under  reasonable conditions with the recognized or
 2    certified collective bargaining representative of the  locked
 3    out  employees  to  discuss  the  issues  giving  rise to the
 4    lockout or (2)  there  is  a  final  adjudication  under  the
 5    National  Labor  Relations  Act that during the period of the
 6    lockout the employer has refused to  bargain  in  good  faith
 7    with   the  recognized  or  certified  collective  bargaining
 8    representative of the locked-out employees over issues giving
 9    rise  to  the  lockout,  or  (3)  the  lockout  violates  the
10    provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement. An
11    individual's total or partial unemployment resulting from any
12    reduction in operations or reduction of force  or  layoff  of
13    employees  by  an  employer  made  in  the  course  of  or in
14    anticipation of collective bargaining negotiations between  a
15    labor  organization  and  such  employer,  is  not  due  to a
16    stoppage of work which exists  because  of  a  labor  dispute
17    until the date of actual commencement of a strike or lockout.
18        This  Section shall not apply if it is shown that (A) the
19    individual is not participating in or financing  or  directly
20    interested  in the labor dispute which caused the stoppage of
21    work and (B) he does not  belong  to  a  grade  or  class  of
22    workers  of  which immediately before the commencement of the
23    stoppage there were members employed at the premises at which
24    the stoppage occurs, any of  whom  are  participating  in  or
25    financing  or  directly  interested in the dispute; provided,
26    that a lockout by the employer or an individual's failure  to
27    cross  a picket line at such factory, establishment, or other
28    premises shall not, in itself, be deemed to be  participation
29    by  him  in  the  labor  dispute.   If  in any case, separate
30    branches of work which are  commonly  conducted  as  separate
31    businesses  in  separate  premises  are conducted in separate
32    departments of the same premises, each such department shall,
33    for the purpose of this Section, be deemed to be  a  separate
34    factory, establishment, or other premises.
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 1        Whenever  any  claim  involves  the  provisions  of  this
 2    Section,  the  claims  adjudicator referred to in Section 702
 3    shall make a separate determination as to the eligibility  or
 4    ineligibility  of the claimant with respect to the provisions
 5    of this Section.  This separate determination may be appealed
 6    to the Director in the manner prescribed by Section 800.
 7    (Source: P.A. 85-956.)
 8        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 9    becoming law.

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