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 1        AN ACT concerning labor.

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

 4        Section  5.   The Minimum Wage Law is amended by changing
 5    Section 4a as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 105/4a) (from Ch. 48, par. 1004a)
 7        Sec. 4a.   (1)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this
 8    Section,  no employer shall employ any of his employees for a
 9    workweek of more than 40 hours unless such employee  receives
10    compensation  for his employment in excess of the hours above
11    specified at a rate not less than 1  1/2  times  the  regular
12    rate at which he is employed.
13        (2)  The provisions of subsection (1) of this Section are
14    not applicable to:
15             A.  Any  salesman  or  mechanic primarily engaged in
16        selling  or  servicing  automobiles,   trucks   or   farm
17        implements,  if  he  is  employed  by  a nonmanufacturing
18        establishment  primarily  engaged  in  the  business   of
19        selling   such   vehicles   or   implements  to  ultimate
20        purchasers;
21             B.  Any  salesman  primarily  engaged   in   selling
22        trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft,  if  he is employed by a
23        nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged  in  the
24        business  of  selling  trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft to
25        ultimate purchasers.
26             C.  Any employer of agricultural labor, with respect
27        to such agricultural  employment,  and  any  employer  of
28        seamen  or  employees  employed  on  a  vessel which is a
29        towboat, tugboat, or barge  engaged  in  navigation  upon
30        navigable waters in furtherance of interstate commerce.
31             D.  Any governmental body.
 
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 1             E.  Any  employee employed in a bona fide executive,
 2        administrative or professional  capacity,  including  any
 3        radio  or  television  announcer,  news  editor, or chief
 4        engineer, as defined by or covered by  the  Federal  Fair
 5        Labor Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
 6        For bona fide executive, administrative, and professional
 7        employees  of  not-for-profit  corporations, the Director
 8        may, by regulation, adopt a  weekly  wage  rate  standard
 9        lower  than  that provided for executive, administrative,
10        and professional employees covered under the  Fair  Labor
11        Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
12             F.  Any   commissioned   employee  as  described  in
13        paragraph (i) of Section 7  of  the  Federal  Fair  Labor
14        Standards   Act   of   1938  and  rules  and  regulations
15        promulgated thereunder, as now or hereafter amended.
16             G.  Any employment of an employee in  the  stead  of
17        another  employee  of  the  same  employer  pursuant to a
18        worktime exchange agreement between employees.
19             H.  Any employee of a not-for-profit educational  or
20        residential  child  care  institution  who (a) on a daily
21        basis is directly involved in  educating  or  caring  for
22        children  who  (1)  are orphans, foster children, abused,
23        neglected  or  abandoned  children,  or   are   otherwise
24        homeless   children     and  (2)  reside  in  residential
25        facilities of the institution and (b) is  compensated  at
26        an  annual  rate  of  not  less  than  $13,000 or, if the
27        employee resides in such facilities and receives  without
28        cost  board  and  lodging from such institution, not less
29        than $10,000.
30        (3)  Any employer may employ any employee for a period or
31    periods of not more than 10 hours in  the  aggregate  in  any
32    workweek   in  excess  of  the  maximum  hours  specified  in
33    subsection  (1)  of   this   Section   without   paying   the
34    compensation for overtime employment prescribed in subsection
 
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 1    (1)  if  during  that  period  or  periods  the  employee  is
 2    receiving remedial education that:
 3             (a)  is provided to employees who lack a high school
 4        diploma  or  educational  attainment  at the eighth grade
 5        level;
 6             (b)  is designed to provide reading and other  basic
 7        skills at an eighth grade level or below; and
 8             (c)  does not include job specific training.
 9    (Source: P.A. 88-122; 89-453, eff. 1-1-97.)

10        Section  10.  The One Day Rest In Seven Act is amended by
11    changing Section 2 as follows:

12        (820 ILCS 140/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 8b)
13        Sec. 2.
14        Every employer shall allow every  employee  except  those
15    specified  in  this  Section at least twenty-four consecutive
16    hours of rest in every  calendar  week  in  addition  to  the
17    regular  period  of rest allowed at the close of each working
18    day.
19        This Section does not apply to the following:
20        (1)  Part-time employees whose total work hours  for  one
21    employer during a calendar week do not exceed 20; and
22        (2)  Employees  needed  in case of breakdown of machinery
23    or equipment  or  other  emergency  requiring  the  immediate
24    services of experienced and competent labor to prevent injury
25    to  person,  damage  to  property, or suspension of necessary
26    operation; and
27        (3)  Employees employed in agriculture  or  coal  mining;
28    and
29        (4)  Employees  engaged  in the occupation of canning and
30    processing  perishable   agricultural   products,   if   such
31    employees are employed by an employer in such occupation on a
32    seasonal  basis  and  for  not  more than 20 weeks during any
 
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 1    calendar year or 12 month period; and
 2        (5)  Employees employed as watchmen or  security  guards,
 3    and  any  seamen or employees employed on a vessel which is a
 4    towboat,  tugboat,  or  barge  engaged  in  navigation   upon
 5    navigable waters in furtherance of interstate commerce; and
 6        (6)  Employees  who are employed in a bonafide executive,
 7    administrative, or professional capacity or in  the  capacity
 8    of  an  outside salesman, as defined in Section 12 (a) (1) of
 9    the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended,  and  those
10    employed  as  supervisors as defined in Section 2 (11) of the
11    National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
12    (Source: P.A. 78-1297.)

13        Section 15.  The Eight Hour Work Day Act  is  amended  by
14    changing Section 2 as follows:

15        (820 ILCS 145/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2)
16        Sec.  2. This act shall not apply to or in any way affect
17    labor or service by the year, month or week;  nor  shall  any
18    person be prevented by anything herein contained from working
19    as  many  hours  over  time  or  extra hours as he or she may
20    agree, and shall not, in any sense, be held to apply to  farm
21    labor,  nor  to  any seamen or employees employed on a vessel
22    which is a towboat, tugboat, or barge engaged  in  navigation
23    upon navigable waters in furtherance of interstate commerce.
24    (Source: Laws 1867, p. 101.)

25        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
26    becoming law.

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