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1 | AN ACT concerning business.
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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 Illinois Worker Adjustment and
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5 | Notification Act is amended by changing Sections 5 and 10 as | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows: | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | (820 ILCS 65/5)
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8 | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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9 | (a) "Affected employees" means employees who may | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | reasonably be expected to experience an employment loss as a | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | consequence of a proposed plant closing or mass layoff by their | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | employer.
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13 | (b) "Employment loss" means: | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | (1) an employment termination, other than a discharge | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | for cause, voluntary departure, or retirement; | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | (2) a layoff exceeding 6 months; or | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | (3) a reduction in hours of work of more than 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | during each month of any 6-month period.
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19 | "Employment loss" does not include instances when the plant | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | closing or layoff is the result of the relocation or | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | consolidation of part or all of the employer's business and, | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | before the closing or layoff, the employer offers to transfer | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | the employee to a different site of employment within a |
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1 | reasonable commuting distance with no more than a 6-month break | ||||||
2 | in employment, or the employer offers to transfer the employee | ||||||
3 | to any other site of employment, regardless of distance, with | ||||||
4 | no more than a 6-month break in employment, and the employee | ||||||
5 | accepts within 30 days of the offer or of the closing or | ||||||
6 | layoff, whichever is later.
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7 | (c) "Employer" means any business enterprise that employs: | ||||||
8 | (1) 65 75 or more employees, excluding part-time | ||||||
9 | employees; or | ||||||
10 | (2) 65 75 or more employees who in the aggregate work | ||||||
11 | at least 2,600 4,000 hours per week (exclusive of hours of | ||||||
12 | overtime).
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13 | (d) "Mass layoff" means a reduction in force which: | ||||||
14 | (1) is not the result of a plant closing; and | ||||||
15 | (2) results in an employment loss at the single site of | ||||||
16 | employment during any 30-day period for: | ||||||
17 | (A) at least 33% of the employees (excluding any | ||||||
18 | part-time employees) and at least 25 employees | ||||||
19 | (excluding any part-time employees); or | ||||||
20 | (B) at least 250 employees (excluding any | ||||||
21 | part-time employees).
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22 | (e) "Part-time employee" means an employee who is employed | ||||||
23 | for an average of fewer than 20 hours per week or who has been | ||||||
24 | employed for fewer than 6 of the 12 months preceding the date | ||||||
25 | on which notice is required.
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26 | (f) "Plant closing" means the permanent or temporary |
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1 | shutdown of a single site of employment, or one or more | ||||||
2 | facilities or operating units within a single site of | ||||||
3 | employment, if the shutdown results in an employment loss at | ||||||
4 | the single site of employment during any 30-day period for 50 | ||||||
5 | or more employees excluding any part-time employees.
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6 | (g) "Representative" means an exclusive representative of | ||||||
7 | employees within the meaning of Section 9(a) or 8(f) of the | ||||||
8 | National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(a), 158(f)) or | ||||||
9 | Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152).
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10 | (Source: P.A. 93-915, eff. 1-1-05.) | ||||||
11 | (820 ILCS 65/10)
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12 | Sec. 10. Notice. | ||||||
13 | (a) An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or | ||||||
14 | employment loss unless, 90 60 days before the order takes | ||||||
15 | effect, the employer gives written notice of the order to the | ||||||
16 | following: | ||||||
17 | (1) affected employees and representatives of affected | ||||||
18 | employees; and | ||||||
19 | (2) the Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
20 | Opportunity and the chief elected official of each | ||||||
21 | municipal and county government within which the | ||||||
22 | employment loss, relocation, or mass layoff occurs. | ||||||
23 | (b) An employer required to give notice of any mass layoff, | ||||||
24 | relocation, or employment loss under this Act shall include in | ||||||
25 | its notice the elements required by the federal Worker |
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1 | Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2101 et | ||||||
2 | seq.). | ||||||
3 | (c) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (a), an | ||||||
4 | employer is not required to provide notice if a mass layoff, | ||||||
5 | relocation, or employment loss is necessitated by a physical | ||||||
6 | calamity or an act of terrorism or war. | ||||||
7 | (d) The mailing of notice to an employee's last known | ||||||
8 | address or inclusion of notice in the employee's paycheck shall | ||||||
9 | be considered acceptable methods for fulfillment of the | ||||||
10 | employer's obligation to give notice to each affected employee | ||||||
11 | under this Act. | ||||||
12 | (e) In the case of a sale of part or all of an employer's | ||||||
13 | business, the seller shall be responsible for providing notice | ||||||
14 | for any plant closing or mass layoff in accordance with this | ||||||
15 | Section, up to and including the effective date of the sale. | ||||||
16 | After the effective date of the sale of part or all of an | ||||||
17 | employer's business, the purchaser shall be responsible for | ||||||
18 | providing notice for any plant closing or mass layoff in | ||||||
19 | accordance with this Section. Notwithstanding any other | ||||||
20 | provision of this Act, any person who is an employee of the | ||||||
21 | seller (other than a part-time employee) as of the effective | ||||||
22 | date of the sale shall be considered an employee of the | ||||||
23 | purchaser immediately after the effective date of the sale. | ||||||
24 | (f) An employer which is receiving State or local economic | ||||||
25 | development incentives for doing or continuing to do business | ||||||
26 | in this State may be required to provide additional notice |
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1 | pursuant to Section 15 of the Business Economic Support Act. | ||||||
2 | (g) The rights and remedies provided to employees by this | ||||||
3 | Act are in
addition to, and not in lieu of, any other | ||||||
4 | contractual or statutory
rights and remedies of the employees, | ||||||
5 | and are not intended to alter or
affect such rights and | ||||||
6 | remedies, except that the period of notification
required by | ||||||
7 | this Act shall run concurrently with any period of
notification | ||||||
8 | required by contract or by any other law. | ||||||
9 | (h) It is the sense of the General Assembly that an | ||||||
10 | employer who is not required to comply with the notice | ||||||
11 | requirements of this Section should, to the extent possible, | ||||||
12 | provide notice to its employees about a proposal to close a | ||||||
13 | plant or permanently reduce its workforce.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 93-915, eff. 1-1-05.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.
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