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1 AN ACT concerning employment.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The One Day Rest In Seven Act is amended by
5 changing Section 3 as follows:
6 (820 ILCS 140/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 8c)
7 Sec. 3. Every employer shall permit its employees who
8 are to work for 7 1/2 continuous hours or longer, except as
9 otherwisethose specified in this Section, at least 20
10 minutes for a meal period beginning no later than 5 hours
11 after the start of the work period.
12 This Section does not apply to employees for whom meal
13 periods are established through the collective bargaining
14 process.
15 This Section does not apply to employees who monitor
16 individuals with developmental disabilities or mental
17 illness, or both, and who, in the course of those duties, are
18 required to be on call during an entire 8 hour work period;
19 however, those employees shall be allowed to eat a meal
20 during the 8 hour work period while continuing to monitor
21 those individuals.
22 (Source: P.A. 88-73.)