Full Text of HB5042 95th General Assembly
HB5042 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5042
Introduced , by Rep. William B. Black SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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820 ILCS 405/603 |
from Ch. 48, par. 433 |
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Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that if, after a layoff, an employer notifies an individual by letter of the employer's recall of the individual for suitable work, and the employee fails to respond within a reasonable time to the recall notice, the individual shall be deemed to have failed,
without good cause, to have accepted suitable
work for purposes of this Section. Provides that the fact that an individual did not receive the recall letter because the individual changed his or her address is not a defense if the individual did not notify the employer of the address change. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning employment.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 603 as follows:
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| (820 ILCS 405/603) (from Ch. 48, par. 433)
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| Sec. 603. Refusal of work. An individual shall be | 8 |
| ineligible for benefits if he has failed,
without good cause, | 9 |
| either to apply for available, suitable work when so
directed | 10 |
| by the employment office or the Director, or to accept suitable
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| work when offered him by the employment office or an employing | 12 |
| unit, or
to return to his customary self-employment (if any) | 13 |
| when so directed by
the employment office or the Director. Such | 14 |
| ineligibility shall continue
for the week in which such failure | 15 |
| occurred and, thereafter, until
he has become reemployed and | 16 |
| has had earnings equal to or in excess of
his current weekly | 17 |
| benefit amount in each of four calendar weeks which are either
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| for services in employment, or have been or will be reported | 19 |
| pursuant to
the provisions of the Federal Insurance | 20 |
| Contributions Act by each employing
unit for which such | 21 |
| services
are performed and which submits a statement certifying | 22 |
| to that fact.
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| If, after a layoff, an employer notifies an individual by |
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| letter of the employer's recall of the individual for suitable | 2 |
| work, and the employee fails to respond within a reasonable | 3 |
| time to the recall notice, the individual shall be deemed to | 4 |
| have failed,
without good cause, to have accepted suitable
work | 5 |
| for purposes of this Section. The fact that an individual did | 6 |
| not receive the recall letter because the individual changed | 7 |
| his or her address is not a defense if the individual did not | 8 |
| notify the employer of the address change. | 9 |
| In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an | 10 |
| individual,
consideration shall be given to the degree of risk | 11 |
| involved to his
health, safety, and morals, his physical | 12 |
| fitness and prior training, his
experience and prior earnings, | 13 |
| his length of unemployment and prospects
for securing local | 14 |
| work in his customary occupation, and the distance of
the | 15 |
| available work from his residence.
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| Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, no work | 17 |
| shall be
deemed suitable and benefits shall not be denied under | 18 |
| this Act to any
otherwise eligible individual for refusing to | 19 |
| accept new work under any
of the following conditions:
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| If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, | 21 |
| lockout,
or other labor dispute; if the wages, hours, or other | 22 |
| conditions of the
work offered are substantially less favorable | 23 |
| to the individual than
those prevailing for similar work in the | 24 |
| locality; if, as a condition of
being employed, the individual | 25 |
| would be required to join a company union
or to resign from or | 26 |
| refrain from joining any bona fide labor
organization; if the |
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| position offered is a transfer to other work offered
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| individual by the employing unit under the terms of a | 3 |
| collective
bargaining agreement or pursuant to an established | 4 |
| employer plan, program,
or policy, when the acceptance of such | 5 |
| other work by the individual would
require the separation from | 6 |
| that work of another individual currently performing it.
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| (Source: P.A. 82-22.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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