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90_HB1195
New Act
Creates the Part-Time Employee Wage Supplement Act.
Provides that a part-time employee is entitled to a portion
of the employer-sponsored insurance, pension, health, child
care, and vacation time benefits available to full-time
employees. Sets forth a method for computing benefits.
Applies only to employers in this State with more than 500
employees. Provides that the Department of Labor shall
administer the Act.
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1 AN ACT to guarantee payment of wage supplements to
2 certain part-time employees.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Part-time Employee Wage Supplement Act.
7 Section 5. Part-time employees; wage supplements. A
8 part-time employee is entitled to a proportion of wage
9 supplements provided by the employer to full-time employees
10 computed on a weekly basis equal to the proportion which the
11 mean number of hours per week spent in the employ of the
12 employer by the part-time employee bears to the mean number
13 of hours per week spent in the employ of the employer by a
14 full-time employee. In this Section, "part-time employee"
15 means an individual who has worked at least 25 hours per week
16 during at least 8 months of the preceding year. In this
17 Section, "wage supplements" include all employer sponsored
18 insurance and pension benefits, health services, child care
19 services and vacation time. This Act applies to all
20 employers in this State with 500 or more employees. In
21 computing whether an employee has worked a qualifying number
22 of hours under this Act, an employer shall consider the
23 number of hours worked by the employee during the preceding
24 year, ending at the conclusion of the last completed calendar
25 quarter. No employer shall be required to provide payment of
26 wage supplements to an employee not currently employed by the
27 employer.
28 Section 10. Administration. This Act shall be
29 administered by the Department of Labor.
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