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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB2757 Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 820 ILCS 115/5 | from Ch. 48, par. 39m-5 |
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Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Requires any unit of local government or school district to pay, within a specified time period, the monetary equivalent of all earned vacation and sick time to an employee who is terminating employment.
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| | HB2757 | | LRB100 10142 JLS 20320 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning employment.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (820 ILCS 115/5) (from Ch. 48, par. 39m-5)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5.
Every employer shall pay the final compensation of |
| 8 | | separated
employees in full, at the time of separation, if |
| 9 | | possible, but in no
case later than the next regularly |
| 10 | | scheduled payday for such employee.
Where such employee |
| 11 | | requests in writing that his final compensation be
paid by |
| 12 | | check and mailed to him, the employer shall comply with this
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| 13 | | request.
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| 14 | | Unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining |
| 15 | | agreement, whenever
a contract of employment or employment |
| 16 | | policy provides for paid vacations,
and an employee resigns or |
| 17 | | is terminated without having taken all vacation
time earned in |
| 18 | | accordance with such contract of employment
or employment |
| 19 | | policy, the monetary equivalent of all earned vacation
shall be |
| 20 | | paid to him or her as part of his or her final compensation
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| 21 | | his or her final rate of pay and no employment contract or |
| 22 | | employment
policy shall provide for forfeiture of earned |
| 23 | | vacation time upon separation. If the employee is terminating |