102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB0645

 

Introduced 2/24/2021, by Sen. Michael E. Hastings

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 191/21

    Amends the Employee Sick Leave Act. Removes language exempting from coverage under the Act an employee of an employer subject to the provisions of Title II of the federal Railway Labor Act.


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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 Employee Sick Leave Act is amended by
5changing Section 21 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 191/21)
7    Sec. 21. Employments exempted from coverage.
8    (a) This Act does not apply to an employee of an employer
9subject to the provisions of Title II of the Railway Labor Act
10(45 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or to an employer or employee as
11defined in either the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance
12Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) or the Federal Employers'
13Liability Act, United States Code, Title 45, Sections 51
14through 60, or other comparable federal law.
15    (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to invalidate,
16diminish, or otherwise interfere with any collective
17bargaining agreement nor shall it be construed to invalidate,
18diminish, or otherwise interfere with any party's power to
19collectively bargain such an agreement.
20    (c) This Act does not apply to any other employment
21expressly exempted under rules adopted by the Department as
22necessary to implement this Act in accordance with applicable
23State and federal law.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)