103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4143

 

Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 405/604  from Ch. 48, par. 434

    Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks (rather than an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for any week) with respect to which it is found that his total or partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which he is or was last employed. Provides that, after the 2 week period, the individual will be eligible for benefits.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5changing Section 604 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 405/604)  (from Ch. 48, par. 434)
7    Sec. 604. Labor dispute. An individual shall be ineligible
8for benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks
9any week with respect to which it is found that his total or
10partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists
11because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or
12other premises at which he is or was last employed. After the 2
13week period, the individual will be eligible for benefits. The
14term "labor dispute" does not include an individual's refusal
15to work because of his employer's failure to pay accrued
16earned wages within 10 working days from the date due, or to
17pay any other uncontested accrued obligation arising out of
18his employment within 10 working days from the date due.
19    For the purpose of disqualification under this Section the
20term "labor dispute" does not include a lockout by an
21employer, and no individual shall be denied benefits by reason
22of a lockout, provided that no individual shall be eligible
23for benefits during a lockout who is ineligible for benefits

 

 

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1under another Section of this Act, and provided further that
2no individual locked out by an employer shall be eligible for
3benefits for any week during which (1) the recognized or
4certified collective bargaining representative of the locked
5out employees refuses to meet under reasonable conditions with
6the employer to discuss the issues giving rise to the lockout
7or (2) there is a final adjudication under the National Labor
8Relations Act that during the period of the lockout the
9recognized or certified collective bargaining representative
10of the locked-out employees has refused to bargain in good
11faith with the employer over issues giving rise to the
12lockout, or (3) the lockout has resulted as a direct
13consequence of a violation by the recognized or certified
14collective bargaining representative of the locked out
15employees of the provisions of an existing collective
16bargaining agreement. An individual's total or partial
17unemployment resulting from any reduction in operations or
18reduction of force or layoff of employees by an employer made
19in the course of or in anticipation of collective bargaining
20negotiations between a labor organization and such employer,
21is not due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a
22labor dispute until the date of actual commencement of a
23strike or lockout.
24    This Section shall not apply if it is shown that (A) the
25individual is not participating in or financing or directly
26interested in the labor dispute which caused the stoppage of

 

 

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1work and (B) he does not belong to a grade or class of workers
2of which immediately before the commencement of the stoppage
3there were members employed at the premises at which the
4stoppage occurs, any of whom are participating in or financing
5or directly interested in the dispute; provided, that a
6lockout by the employer or an individual's failure to cross a
7picket line at such factory, establishment, or other premises
8shall not, in itself, be deemed to be participation by him in
9the labor dispute. If in any case, separate branches of work
10which are commonly conducted as separate businesses in
11separate premises are conducted in separate departments of the
12same premises, each such department shall, for the purpose of
13this Section, be deemed to be a separate factory,
14establishment, or other premises.
15    Whenever any claim involves the provisions of this
16Section, the claims adjudicator referred to in Section 702
17shall make a separate determination as to the eligibility or
18ineligibility of the claimant with respect to the provisions
19of this Section. This separate determination may be appealed
20to the Director in the manner prescribed by Section 800.
21(Source: P.A. 93-1088, eff. 1-1-06.)