093_HB2577

 
                                     LRB093 10414 JAM 10668 b

 1        AN ACT concerning public labor relations.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 20 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 315/20) (from Ch. 48, par. 1620)
 7        Sec. 20.  Prohibitions.
 8        (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require  an
 9    individual  employee  to  render labor or service without his
10    consent, nor shall anything in this Act be construed to  make
11    the  quitting  of  his  labor  by  an  individual employee an
12    illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to  compel
13    the  performance  by  an individual employee of such labor or
14    service, without his consent; nor shall the quitting of labor
15    by  an  employee  or  employees  in  good  faith  because  of
16    abnormally dangerous conditions for  work  at  the  place  of
17    employment  of  such  employee  be deemed a strike under this
18    Act.
19        (b)  This Act shall not be applicable to units  of  local
20    government  employing  less  than 2 35 employees, except with
21    respect to bargaining units in  existence  on  the  effective
22    date  of  this  Act and fire protection districts required by
23    the Fire Protection District Act to appoint a Board  of  Fire
24    Commissioners.
25    (Source: P.A. 87-736.)