[ Search ] [ Legislation ] [ Bill Summary ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
90_SB0405
20 ILCS 605/46.69 new
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Allows
the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to
establish, with the advice of members of the business
community, a family-friendly workplace initiative. States
that the Department may develop a program to annually collect
information regarding the State's private or public eligible
employers with 50 or fewer employees and private or public
eligible employers with 51 or more employees in the State
providing the most family-friendly benefits to their
employees. Provides that the employers may be recognized
with annual "family-friendly workplace" awards and a
Statewide information and advertising campaign publicizing
the employers' awards, their contributions to family-friendly
child care, and the methods they used to improve the
dependent care experiences of their employees' families.
Effective immediately.
LRB9002193DNpk
LRB9002193DNpk
1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
2 by adding Section 46.69.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by adding Section 46.69 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 605/46.69 new)
8 Sec. 46.69. Family-friendly workplace initiative. The
9 Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, with the advice
10 of members of the business community, may establish a
11 family-friendly workplace initiative. The Department may
12 develop a program to annually collect information regarding
13 the State's private eligible employers with 50 or fewer
14 employees and private eligible employers with 51 or more
15 employees in the State providing the most family-friendly
16 benefits to their employees. The same program may be
17 established for public employers. The criteria for
18 determining eligible employers includes, but is not limited
19 to, the following:
20 (1) consideration of the dependent care scholarship
21 or discounts given by the employer;
22 (2) flexible work hours and schedules;
23 (3) time off for caring for sick or injured
24 dependents;
25 (4) the provision of onsite or nearby dependent
26 care;
27 (5) dependent care referral services; and
28 (6) in-kind contributions to community dependent
29 care programs.
30 Those employers chosen by the Department may be
31 recognized with annual "family-friendly workplace" awards and
-2- LRB9002193DNpk
1 a Statewide information and advertising campaign publicizing
2 the employers' awards, their contributions to family-friendly
3 child care, and the methods they used to improve the
4 dependent care experiences of their employees' families.
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.