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 1        AN ACT concerning employment.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Minimum Wage Law is amended  by  changing
 5    Section 4a as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 105/4a) (from Ch. 48, par. 1004a)
 7        Sec.  4a.   (1)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in this
 8    Section, no employer shall employ any of his employees for  a
 9    workweek  of more than 40 hours unless such employee receives
10    compensation for his employment in excess of the hours  above
11    specified  at  a  rate  not less than 1 1/2 times the regular
12    rate at which he is employed.
13        (2)  The provisions of subsection (1) of this Section are
14    not applicable to:
15             A.  Any salesman or mechanic  primarily  engaged  in
16        selling    or    servicing    automobiles,   motorcycles,
17        all-terrain vehicles, off-highway  vehicles,  trucks,  or
18        farm  implements, if he is employed by a nonmanufacturing
19        establishment  primarily  engaged  in  the  business   of
20        selling   such   vehicles   or   implements  to  ultimate
21        purchasers;
22             B.  Any  salesman  primarily  engaged   in   selling
23        trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft,  if  he is employed by a
24        nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged  in  the
25        business  of  selling  trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft to
26        ultimate purchasers.
27             C.  Any employer of agricultural labor, with respect
28        to such agricultural employment.
29             D.  Any governmental body.
30             E.  Any employee employed in a bona fide  executive,
31        administrative  or  professional  capacity, including any
 
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 1        radio or television  announcer,  news  editor,  or  chief
 2        engineer,  as  defined  by or covered by the Federal Fair
 3        Labor Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
 4        For bona fide executive, administrative, and professional
 5        employees of not-for-profit  corporations,  the  Director
 6        may,  by  regulation,  adopt  a weekly wage rate standard
 7        lower than that provided for  executive,  administrative,
 8        and  professional  employees covered under the Fair Labor
 9        Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
10             F.  Any  commissioned  employee  as   described   in
11        paragraph  (i)  of  Section  7  of the Federal Fair Labor
12        Standards  Act  of  1938  and   rules   and   regulations
13        promulgated thereunder, as now or hereafter amended.
14             G.  Any  employment  of  an employee in the stead of
15        another employee of  the  same  employer  pursuant  to  a
16        worktime exchange agreement between employees.
17             H.  Any  employee of a not-for-profit educational or
18        residential child care institution who  (a)  on  a  daily
19        basis  is  directly  involved  in educating or caring for
20        children who (1) are orphans,  foster  children,  abused,
21        neglected   or   abandoned  children,  or  are  otherwise
22        homeless  children    and  (2)  reside   in   residential
23        facilities  of  the institution and (b) is compensated at
24        an annual rate of  not  less  than  $13,000  or,  if  the
25        employee  resides in such facilities and receives without
26        cost board and lodging from such  institution,  not  less
27        than $10,000.
28        (3)  Any employer may employ any employee for a period or
29    periods  of  not  more  than 10 hours in the aggregate in any
30    workweek  in  excess  of  the  maximum  hours  specified   in
31    subsection   (1)   of   this   Section   without  paying  the
32    compensation for overtime employment prescribed in subsection
33    (1)  if  during  that  period  or  periods  the  employee  is
34    receiving remedial education that:
 
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 1             (a)  is provided to employees who lack a high school
 2        diploma or educational attainment  at  the  eighth  grade
 3        level;
 4             (b)  is  designed to provide reading and other basic
 5        skills at an eighth grade level or below; and
 6             (c)  does not include job specific training.
 7    (Source: P.A. 88-122; 89-453, eff. 1-1-97.)

 8        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 9    becoming law.

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