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90_HB1429 20 ILCS 1015/16 new Amends the Public Employment Office Act. Provides that the Illinois Department of Employment Security shall include available State jobs (with specified exceptions) in its job listings at free employment offices. Provides that the listing shall be accessible to the public without special assistance on the same computer terminal, in the same format, and posted within the same amount of time as all other job listings, and shall be displayed by category, by title, and by region of the State. Provides that the State job listings shall also be available from the State's World Wide Web home page. LRB9000474SMdv LRB9000474SMdv 1 AN ACT to amend the Public Employment Office Act by 2 changing Section 3. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Public Employment Office Act is amended 6 by changing Section 3 as follows: 7 (20 ILCS 1015/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 179) 8 Sec. 3. The Department of Employment Security shall, in 9 each city, open an office in the locality agreed upon between 10 the Department and the secretary of the Bureau of Labor 11 Statistics as being most appropriate for the purpose 12 intended. Upon the outside of each such office, in position 13 and manner to secure the fullest public attention, shall be 14 placed a sign which shall read in the English language, 15 Illinois Free Employment Office, and such sign shall appear 16 either upon the outside windows or upon signs in such other 17 languages as the location of each such office shall render 18 advisable. The Department shall receive and register the 19 names of all persons applying for employment or help, 20 designating opposite the names and addresses of each 21 applicant, the character of employment or help desired upon 22 the blank form furnished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 23 together with such other facts as may be required by the 24 Bureau of Labor Statistics to be used by such Bureau: 25 However, no record shall be open to public inspection at any 26 time, and such statistical and sociological data as the 27 Bureau of Labor Statistics may require shall be held in 28 confidence by such Bureau and so published as not to reveal 29 the identity of any one. Any applicant who shall decline to 30 furnish answers to the questions contained in the application 31 blanks shall not thereby forfeit any rights to any employment -2- LRB9000474SMdv 1 the office might secure. 2 Job listings at free employment offices shall include all 3 available State jobs. The listing of available State jobs 4 shall be accessible to the public without special assistance. 5 The listing of available State jobs shall be maintained in 6 the same manner as all other job listings maintained by the 7 Department, with postings of available State jobs being 8 maintained on the same computer terminal, in the same format, 9 and posted within the same amount of time as all other jobs 10 listed. The listing of available State jobs shall display all 11 State jobs available in a given category by title and region 12 of the State. 13 The listing of available State jobs shall also be 14 accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled 15 "Jobs Available" on the State's World Wide Web home page. The 16 display format for the listing shall allow a person to select 17 all State jobs available in a given category by title and 18 region of the State. 19 As used in this Section, "available State job" means a 20 vacant union or non-union position in any State entity 21 audited by the Auditor General, except positions for which 22 the salary is set by the Compensation Review Board. 23 (Source: P.A. 83-1503.)