HB2191 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB2191

Introduced , by Rep. Keith P. Sommer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

50 ILCS 748/5

Amends the Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act. Provides that no public or private employer may take disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker because the employee, when acting as a volunteer worker, is absent from or late to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(50 ILCS 748/5)

Sec. 5. Volunteer emergency worker; when termination of employment prohibited.

(a) No public or private employer may terminate or take disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker because the employee, when acting as a volunteer emergency worker, is absent from or late to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the time the employee is to report to his or her place of employment.

(b) An employer may charge, against the employee's regular pay, any time that an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker loses from employment because of the employee's response to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties as a volunteer emergency worker.

(c) In the case of an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker and who loses time from his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties as a volunteer emergency worker, the employer has the right to request the employee to provide the employer with a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of the volunteer fire department or governmental entity that the volunteer emergency worker serves stating that the employee responded to an emergency and stating the time and date of the emergency.

(d) An employee who is a volunteer emergency worker and who may be absent from or late to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties as a volunteer emergency worker must make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be absent or late.

(Source: P.A. 93-1027, eff. 8-25-04; 94-599, eff. 1-1-06.)

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