97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5648

 

Introduced 2/15/2012, by Rep. Keith P. Sommer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 305/10  from Ch. 48, par. 138.10

    Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that in calculating the average weekly wage with respect to employers with 50 or fewer employees, benefit pay for sick, personal, vacation, or holidays shall not be considered.


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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 Workers' Compensation Act is amended by
5changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 305/10)  (from Ch. 48, par. 138.10)
7    Sec. 10. The basis for computing the compensation provided
8for in Sections 7 and 8 of the Act shall be as follows:
9    The compensation shall be computed on the basis of the
10"Average weekly wage" which shall mean the actual earnings of
11the employee in the employment in which he was working at the
12time of the injury during the period of 52 weeks ending with
13the last day of the employee's last full pay period immediately
14preceding the date of injury, illness or disablement excluding
15overtime, and bonus divided by 52; but if the injured employee
16lost 5 or more calendar days during such period, whether or not
17in the same week, then the earnings for the remainder of such
1852 weeks shall be divided by the number of weeks and parts
19thereof remaining after the time so lost has been deducted.
20Where the employment prior to the injury extended over a period
21of less than 52 weeks, the method of dividing the earnings
22during that period by the number of weeks and parts thereof
23during which the employee actually earned wages shall be

 

 

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1followed. Where by reason of the shortness of the time during
2which the employee has been in the employment of his employer
3or of the casual nature or terms of the employment, it is
4impractical to compute the average weekly wages as above
5defined, regard shall be had to the average weekly amount which
6during the 52 weeks previous to the injury, illness or
7disablement was being or would have been earned by a person in
8the same grade employed at the same work for each of such 52
9weeks for the same number of hours per week by the same
10employer. In the case of volunteer firemen, police and civil
11defense members or trainees, the income benefits shall be based
12on the average weekly wage in their regular employment. When
13the employee is working concurrently with two or more employers
14and the respondent employer has knowledge of such employment
15prior to the injury, his wages from all such employers shall be
16considered as if earned from the employer liable for
17compensation.
18    In computing the compensation to be paid by an employer
19having 50 or fewer employees, "average weekly wage" shall not
20include benefit pay for holidays, or for sick, personal, or
21vacation days.
22(Source: P.A. 81-1482.)