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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  Employment  of  Strikebreakers  Act is
 5    amended by changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2e)
 7        Sec. 1.  Definitions.  For the purpose of this Act:
 8        (a)  "Lockout" means the action of an  employer  pursuant
 9    to  a  labor  dispute  in  temporarily  closing  a  place  of
10    employment  or  preventing  an  employee  or  employees  from
11    engaging in their normal course of employment for the purpose
12    of  inducing  settlement  of  the  dispute or influencing the
13    conditions of employment to be agreed on.
14        (b)  "Person"   means   any   individual,    partnership,
15    association, firm, corporation, union, or group of employees.
16        (c)  "Professional  strikebreaker"  means  any person who
17    repeatedly and habitually offers himself for employment on  a
18    temporary  basis where a lockout or strike exists to take the
19    place of an employee  whose  work  has  ceased  as  a  direct
20    consequence of such lockout or strike.
21        (d)  "Strike"  means  the  concerted  action of employees
22    pursuant to a labor dispute in failing to  report  for  work,
23    engaging in the stoppage of work, picketing (where the effect
24    of such picketing is to induce any individual not to pick up,
25    deliver  or  transport  any  goods  or  not  to  perform  any
26    services), or abstaining from the full and proper performance
27    of  the  duties  of  employment  for  the purpose of inducing
28    settlement of the dispute or influencing  the  conditions  of
29    employment to be agreed on.
30        (e)  "Day  and  temporary  labor  service agency" has the
31    meaning ascribed to that term in the Day and Temporary  Labor
 
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 1    Services Act.
 2    (Source: P.A. 79-859.)

 3        (820 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2f)
 4        Sec.   2.    No   person   shall   knowingly  employ  any
 5    professional strikebreaker in the place of an employee, whose
 6    work has ceased as a  direct  consequence  of  a  lockout  or
 7    strike,  or knowingly contract with a day and temporary labor
 8    service agency to provide a  replacement  for  the  employee,
 9    during  any  period  when a lockout or strike is in progress.
10    Nor shall any professional strikebreaker  take  or  offer  to
11    take  the  place  in  employment  of  employees involved in a
12    lockout or strike.
13    (Source: P.A. 79-859.)