103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5090
 
Introduced 2/8/2024, by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
115 ILCS 5/1  from Ch. 48, par. 1701
    Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is 
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (115 ILCS 5/1)  (from Ch. 48, par. 1701)
7    Sec. 1. Policy. It is the the public policy of this State 
8and the purpose of this Act to promote orderly and 
9constructive relationships between all educational employees 
10and their employers. Unresolved disputes between the 
11educational employees and their employers are injurious to the 
12public, and the General Assembly is therefore aware that 
13adequate means must be established for minimizing them and 
14providing for their resolution. It is the purpose of this Act 
15to regulate labor relations between educational employers and 
16educational employees, including the designation of 
17educational employee representatives, negotiation of wages, 
18hours and other conditions of employment and resolution of 
19disputes arising under collective bargaining agreements. The 
20General Assembly recognizes that substantial differences exist 
21between educational employees and other public employees as a 
22result of the uniqueness of the educational work calendar and 
23educational work duties and the traditional and historical 
 
 
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1patterns of collective bargaining between educational 
2employers and educational employees and that such differences 
3demand statutory regulation of collective bargaining between 
4educational employers and educational employees in a manner 
5that recognizes these differences. Recognizing that harmonious 
6relationships are required between educational employees and 
7their employers, the General Assembly has determined that the 
8overall policy may best be accomplished by (a) granting to 
9educational employees the right to organize and choose freely 
10their representatives; (b) requiring educational employers to 
11negotiate and bargain with employee organizations representing 
12educational employees and to enter into written agreements 
13evidencing the result of such bargaining; and (c) establishing 
14procedures to provide for the protection of the rights of the 
15educational employee, the educational employer and the public.
16(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)