Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

Filed: 5/25/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1895

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1895 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection
5Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 748/5)
7    Sec. 5. Volunteer emergency worker; when termination of
8employment prohibited.
9    (a) No public or private employer may terminate an employee
10who is a volunteer emergency worker because the employee, when
11acting as a volunteer emergency worker, is absent from or late
12to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency
13prior to the time the employee is to report to his or her place
14of employment.
15    (a-5) A public or private employer shall not discipline an
16employee who is a volunteer emergency worker if the employee,

 

 

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1in the scope of acting as a volunteer emergency worker,
2responds to an emergency phone call or text message during work
3hours that requests the person's volunteer emergency services.
4This subsection (a-5) does not apply to a person employed by a
5public or private vehicle service provider and who is in the
6course of performing services as Emergency Medical Services
7personnel as defined in Section 3.5 of the Emergency Medical
8Services (EMS) Systems Act. This subsection (a-5) shall not
9diminish or supersede an employer's written workplace policy, a
10collective bargaining agreement, administrative guidelines, or
11other applicable written rules administered by the employer.
12Existing written policies governing the use of cell phones
13shall prevail and control.
14    (b) An employer may charge, against the employee's regular
15pay, any time that an employee who is a volunteer emergency
16worker loses from employment because of the employee's response
17to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties
18as a volunteer emergency worker.
19    (c) In the case of an employee who is a volunteer emergency
20worker and who loses time from his or her employment in order
21to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or
22her duties as a volunteer emergency worker, the employer has
23the right to request the employee to provide the employer with
24a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of
25the volunteer fire department or governmental entity that the
26volunteer emergency worker serves stating that the employee

 

 

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1responded to an emergency and stating the time and date of the
2emergency.
3    (d) An employee who is a volunteer emergency worker and who
4may be absent from or late to his or her employment in order to
5respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her
6duties as a volunteer emergency worker must make a reasonable
7effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be
8absent or late.
9(Source: P.A. 93-1027, eff. 8-25-04; 94-599, eff. 1-1-06.)".