102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB2642

 

Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Fred Crespo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 115/3.5 new
820 ILCS 115/3.6 new

    Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that each workday a nurse is required to report for work, based upon a previously approved and distributed work schedule and either (1) does report, but is not put to work, or (2) was directed to not report, the nurse shall be paid for half the usual or scheduled day's work at the nurse's regular rate of pay, which shall not be less than the minimum wage. Applies to nurses who are directed not to report to work and to nurses engaged in telemedicine. Provides that the report-to-work requirement is to be based upon an approved and distributed work schedule. Effective January 1, 2022.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act is
5amended by adding Sections 3.5 and 3.6 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 115/3.5 new)
7    Sec. 3.5. Reporting time pay for nurses.
8    (a) Except as required in Section 3.6, each workday a
9nurse is required to report for work, based upon a previously
10approved and distributed work schedule and either (1) does
11report, but is not put to work or (2) was directed to not
12report, the nurse shall be paid for half the usual or scheduled
13day's work at the nurse's regular rate of pay, which shall not
14be less than the minimum wage.
15    (b) The reporting time pay provisions established under
16this Section are not applicable when:
17        (1) operations cannot commence or continue due to
18    threats to employees or property or when recommended by
19    civil authorities;
20        (2) public utilities fail to supply electricity,
21    water, or gas, or there is a failure in the public
22    utilities or sewer system; or
23        (3) the interruption of work is caused by an Act of God

 

 

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1    or other cause not within the employer's control.
2    (c) This Section does not apply to a nurse on paid standby
3status who is called to perform assigned work at a time other
4than the nurse's scheduled reporting time.
5    (d) This Section applies to all nurses, including those
6who use technology to overcome physical distance between
7patient and nurse to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing
8practice.
 
9    (820 ILCS 115/3.6 new)
10    Sec. 3.6. Reporting time pay for nurses; less than full
11schedule. Each workday a nurse is required to report for work
12based upon a previously approved work schedule and does report
13to work and is furnished less than one-half of the nurse's
14usual or scheduled day's work providing nursing services, the
15nurse shall be paid for all hours worked and shall be paid for
16one half of the remaining usual or scheduled day's work at the
17nurse's regular rate of pay.
 
18    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
191, 2022.