(5 ILCS 235/25)
Sec. 25. Employee benefits. Emergency responders from outside this State, while
rendering mutual aid within this State pursuant to a mutual aid
agreement authorized by this Act, remain employees and agents of
their respective employers and jurisdictions. Nothing in this Act,
or any mutual aid agreement entered into pursuant to this Act,
creates an employment relationship between the jurisdiction
requesting aid and the employees and agents of the jurisdiction
rendering aid. All pension, relief, disability, death benefits,
workers' compensation, and other benefits enjoyed by emergency
responders rendering emergency mutual aid shall extend to the
services they perform outside their respective jurisdictions as if
those services had been rendered in their own jurisdiction.
(Source: P.A. 98-309, eff. 8-12-13.) |