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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning employment.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The One Day Rest In Seven Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (820 ILCS 140/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 8c)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3.
Every employer shall permit its employees who are |
| 8 | | to work for 7 1/2
continuous hours or longer, except those |
| 9 | | specified in this Section, at
least 20 minutes for a meal |
| 10 | | period beginning no later than 5 hours after
the start of the |
| 11 | | work period.
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| 12 | | This Section does not apply to employees for whom meal |
| 13 | | periods are
established through the collective bargaining |
| 14 | | process.
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| 15 | | This Section does not apply to employees who monitor |
| 16 | | individuals with
developmental disabilities or mental illness, |
| 17 | | or both, and who, in the course
of those duties, are required |
| 18 | | to be on call during an entire 8 hour work
period; however, |
| 19 | | those employees shall be allowed to eat a meal during the 8
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| 20 | | hour work period while continuing to monitor those individuals. |
| 21 | | This Section does not apply to individuals who are employed by |
| 22 | | a private company and licensed under the Emergency Medical |
| 23 | | Services (EMS) Systems Act, are required to be on call during |