(20 ILCS 605/605-810) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)

Sec. 605-810. Reemployment of former employees. When the Department is involved in developing a federal or State funded training or retraining program for any employer, the Department may assist and encourage that employer in making every effort to reemploy individuals previously employed at the facility. Further, the Department may provide a list of those employees to the employer for consideration for reemployment. This requirement shall be in effect when all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The employer is reopening, or is proposing to reopen, a facility that was last closed during the preceding 2 years.

(2) A substantial number of the persons who were employed at the facility before its most recent closure remain unemployed.

(3) The product or service produced by, or proposed to be produced by, the employer at the facility is substantially similar to the product or service produced at the facility before its most recent closure.

(Source: P.A. 96-739, eff. 1-1-10.)