Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB4999

Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Makes it unlawful for an employer or prospective employer to request or require an employee or applicant to authenticate or access a personal online account in the presence of the employer, to request or require that an employee or applicant invite the employer to join a group affiliated with any personal online account of the employee or applicant, or join an online account established by the employer. Prohibits retaliation against an employee or applicant. Defines terms.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause with provisions substantially similar to the introduced bill. Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Makes it unlawful for an employer or prospective employer to request or require an employee or applicant to authenticate or access a personal online account in the presence of the employer, to request or require that an employee or applicant invite the employer to join a group affiliated with any personal online account of the employee or applicant, or join an online account established by the employer. Prohibits retaliation against an employee or applicant. Provides that when an employer pays for or provides additional features to an employee's personal online account and the employee uses only those features for business purposes, the rest of the account shall be considered a personal online account. Removes the employee's profile on a social networking website from the scope of the Act. Amends the Freedom from Location Surveillance Act to make a complementary cross reference change.

Changes the definition of "personal online account" by deleting an exception for an account for which an employer pays for additional features or enhancements to an employee's personal online account and the employee uses those features or enhancements for a business purpose. In language providing that certain provisions of the bill do not prohibit or restrict an employer from complying with a duty to screen employees or applicants before hiring or monitoring or retaining employee communications under specified laws if the password, account information, or access sought by the employer relates only to an online account that is supplied or paid for by an employer, deletes language relating to an exception for an account for which an employer pays for additional features or enhancements to an employee's personal online account.

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