(215 ILCS 113/15)
Sec. 15.
Definitions.
In this Act:
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Insurance.
"Employee leasing arrangement" means a contractual arrangement,
including long-term temporary arrangements whereby a lessor obligates itself
to perform specified employer responsibilities as to leased employees including
the securing of workers' compensation insurance. For purposes of this Act,
"employee leasing arrangement" does not include "temporary help arrangement".
"Leased employee" or "worker" means a person performing services for a
lessee under an
employee leasing arrangement.
"Lessee" or "client company" means an entity that obtains any of its
work force from
another entity through an employee leasing arrangement.
"Lessor" or "employee leasing company" means an entity that leases any of
its workers to a lessee through an
employee leasing arrangement.
"Long-term temporary arrangement" means an arrangement where one company
leases all or a
majority number of workers from
another for a
period in excess of 6 months or consecutive periods equal to or greater than
one year.
"Residual market mechanism" means the residual market mechanism as
defined in Section 468 of the Illinois Insurance Code.
"Temporary help arrangement" means a service whereby an organization hires
its own employees and assigns them to clients for a finite time period to
support or supplement the client's work force in special work situations such
as, but not limited to, employee absences, temporary skill shortages, seasonal
workloads, and special assignments and projects.
(Source: P.A. 90-499, eff. 1-1-98; 90-794, eff. 8-14-98.)
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