Miguel del Valle

Filed: 2/18/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2528

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2528 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
5 amended by changing Section 4.5 as follows:
 
6     (115 ILCS 5/4.5)
7     Sec. 4.5. Subjects of collective bargaining.
8     (a) Notwithstanding the existence of any other provision in
9 this Act or other law, collective bargaining between an
10 educational employer whose territorial boundaries are
11 coterminous with those of a city having a population in excess
12 of 500,000 and an exclusive representative of its employees may
13 include any of the following subjects:
14         (1) (Blank).
15         (2) Decisions to contract with a third party for one or
16     more services otherwise performed by employees in a
17     bargaining unit and the procedures for obtaining such
18     contract or the identity of the third party.
19         (3) Decisions to layoff or reduce in force employees.
20         (4) Decisions to determine class size, class staffing
21     and assignment, class schedules, academic calendar, hours
22     and places of instruction, or pupil assessment policies.
23         (5) Decisions concerning use and staffing of
24     experimental or pilot programs and decisions concerning

 

 

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1     use of technology to deliver educational programs and
2     services and staffing to provide the technology.
3         (6) The decision on whether or not to have seniority on
4     a district-wide basis.
5     (b) The subject or matters described in subsection (a) are
6 permissive subjects of bargaining between an educational
7 employer and an exclusive representative of its employees and,
8 for the purpose of this Act, are within the sole discretion of
9 the educational employer to decide to bargain, provided that
10 the educational employer is required to bargain over the impact
11 of a decision concerning such subject or matter on the
12 bargaining unit upon request by the exclusive representative.
13 During this bargaining, the educational employer shall not be
14 precluded from implementing its decision. If, after a
15 reasonable period of bargaining, a dispute or impasse exists
16 between the educational employer and the exclusive
17 representative, the dispute or impasse shall be resolved
18 exclusively as set forth in subsection (b) of Section 12 of
19 this Act in lieu of a strike under Section 13 of this Act.
20     (c) A provision in a collective bargaining agreement that
21 was rendered null and void because it involved a prohibited
22 subject of collective bargaining under this subsection (c) as
23 this subsection (c) existed before the effective date of this
24 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly remains null and
25 void and shall not otherwise be reinstated in any successor
26 agreement unless the educational employer and exclusive
27 representative otherwise agree to include an agreement reached
28 on a subject or matter described in subsection (a) of this
29 Section as subsection (a) existed before this amendatory Act of
30 the 93rd General Assembly.
31 (Source: P.A. 93-3, eff. 4-16-03.)
 
32     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect August 1,
33 2004.".