Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB0690

Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Requires a day and temporary labor service agency (agency) to notify a day or temporary laborer (laborer) in writing of the schedule and length of multi-day assignments. Requires an agency to keep records on the ethnicity of each laborer or applicant and the date, time, and location at which an applicant requested employment. Requires an agency to provide a laborer with transportation back to the point of hire at the end of each work day. Requires an agency to indicate on a laborer's payment stub the current maximum amount of any placement fee charged to a third party client. Prohibits an agency or third party client from charging a laborer for the expense of conducting a consumer report, a criminal background check, or a drug test. Requires an agency to submit to the Department of Labor the total number of laborers the agency has placed in a permanent position. Requires laborers to be paid at a rate no less than the same average rate of pay as a permanent employee performing the same or substantially similar work. Requires a third party client to conduct a job hazard analysis for each job to which a laborer might be sent. Requires an agency to obtain a surety bond of no less than $150,000 and to comply with other specified registration requirements. Makes a third party client liable for any obligation to pay the 4 hours minimum pay or any statutory damages required under the Act. Provides that termination or disciplinary action against a laborer within 90 days of the person's exercise of rights protected under the Act shall raise a rebuttable presumption of retaliation. Makes other changes.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Requires a day and temporary labor service agency to attempt to place day or temporary laborers in permanent positions. Requires compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. Requires reports of the race and gender of temporary laborers to be reported to the Department of Employment Security. Requires an agency to provide a laborer with transportation back to the point of hire at the end of each work day. Prohibits an agency or third party client from charging a laborer for the expense of conducting a consumer report, a criminal background check, or a drug test. Makes changes regarding damages in a private right of action.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of House Amendment No. 2, but with the following changes: Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts from inspection and copying reports of the race and gender of temporary laborers submitted to the Department of Labor by registering day and temporary labor service agencies as required under the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Further amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Removes a provision requiring day and temporary service agencies and third party clients to comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. Removes provisions providing that, regardless of the length of a temporary laborer's assignment, if a third party client supervises and directs the work of the temporary laborers, the third party client has primary responsibility for fulfilling, in the same manner as provided to the client's own employees, the following obligations with respect to the temporary laborers: (i) providing the workers with worksite-specific safety training and information; (ii) fulfilling Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordkeeping requirements; and (iii) selecting, providing, and ensuring the use of personal protective equipment appropriate for the processes or operations to which the temporary laborers are assigned. Removes a provision requiring worksite-specific safety training to be completed by the party responsible for supervision of the worker before the temporary laborer begins work on a project. Requires a day and temporary labor service agency to inform a laborer of the type of equipment, protective clothing, and training required for the work to be performed. Requires reports of the race and gender of temporary laborers to be reported to the Department of Labor (rather than the Department of Employment Security) and exempts such reports from inspection and copying under the Freedom of Information Act. Makes other changes.

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