093_HB2506

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning unemployment insurance.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended  by
 5    changing Section 601 as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 405/601) (from Ch. 48, par. 431)
 7        Sec.  601.  Voluntary leaving.  A. An individual shall be
 8    ineligible for benefits for the week in  which  he  has  left
 9    work  voluntarily  without  good  cause  attributable  to the
10    employing  unit  and,  thereafter,  until   he   has   become
11    reemployed  and has had earnings equal to or in excess of his
12    current weekly benefit amount in each of four calendar  weeks
13    which  are either for services in employment, or have been or
14    will be reported pursuant to the provisions  of  the  Federal
15    Insurance  Contributions Act by each employing unit for which
16    such services are performed and  which  submits  a  statement
17    certifying to that fact.
18        B.   The provisions of this Section shall not apply to an
19    individual who has left work voluntarily:
20        1.  Because he is deemed physically unable to perform his
21    work by a licensed and practicing physician, or has left work
22    voluntarily upon the advice  of  a  licensed  and  practicing
23    physician  that  assistance  is  necessary for the purpose of
24    caring for his spouse,  child,  or  parent  who  is  in  poor
25    physical  health  and  such  assistance will not allow him to
26    perform the usual and customary duties of his employment, and
27    he has notified the employing unit of  the  reasons  for  his
28    absence;
29        2.  To  accept  other  bona  fide  work  and,  after such
30    acceptance, the individual is either not unemployed  in  each
31    of  2  weeks, or earns remuneration for such work equal to at
 
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 1    least twice his current weekly benefit amount;
 2        3.  In lieu of accepting a transfer to other work offered
 3    to the individual by the employing unit under the terms of  a
 4    collective bargaining agreement or pursuant to an established
 5    employer  plan, program, or policy, if the acceptance of such
 6    other work by the individual  would  require  the  separation
 7    from that work of another individual currently performing it;
 8        4.  Solely  because  of  the  sexual  harassment  of  the
 9    individual  by another employee.  Sexual harassment means (1)
10    unwelcome  sexual  advances,  requests  for  sexual   favors,
11    sexually  motivated  physical  contact  or  other  conduct or
12    communication which is  made  a  term  or  condition  of  the
13    employment  or  (2) the employee's submission to or rejection
14    of such conduct or  communication  which  is  the  basis  for
15    decisions  affecting  employment, or (3) when such conduct or
16    communication has the  purpose  or  effect  of  substantially
17    interfering with an individual's work performance or creating
18    an  intimidating,  hostile,  or offensive working environment
19    and the employer knows or should know of the existence of the
20    harassment and fails to take timely and appropriate action;
21        4.5.  To protect  his  or  her  children  or  himself  or
22    herself  from  domestic  violence.  As  used in this Section,
23    "domestic violence" means the physical injury, sexual  abuse,
24    or  forced  imprisonment,  or  threat thereof, of a person by
25    another who  is  related  by  blood  or  marriage  or  has  a
26    significant   relationship  with  the  other  person  at  the
27    present, or who has been related or  has  had  a  significant
28    relationship at some time in the past, to the extent that the
29    person's  health,  safety, or welfare is harmed or threatened
30    thereby;
31        5.  Which he had accepted  after  separation  from  other
32    work,  and the work which he left voluntarily would be deemed
33    unsuitable under the provisions of Section 603.
34    (Source: P.A. 83-197.)