Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB4241

Creates the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act. Provides protections to building service employees who are regularly assigned to a covered building on a full or part-time basis for at least 90 days immediately preceding a transition in employment and who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of an existing building. Provides that a successor building owner, manager, or contractor shall be required to offer employment to the predecessor employer's incumbent building service employees, subject to the existence of cause, for a period of 90 days following the transition at the affected building. Provides that at the end of the 90 day transition period, the successor employer perform written performance evaluations and offer continued employment to all covered building service employees who receive satisfactory ratings. Excludes from coverage employees who earn more than $25 per hour, work less than 6 hours per week, or serve in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity. Exempts from coverage those successor employers who are already or agree to become bound by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that includes provisions that address the discharge or lay off of building service employees. Exempts any predecessor employer that obtains a written commitment from a successor employer providing that the successor employer's building service employees will be covered by a collective bargaining agreement that addresses the discharge or layoff of employees. Effective immediately.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Inserts provisions substantially similar to the engrossed bill, except provides that a "covered employer" does not include: (1) churches, synagogues, mosques, or places of worship, elementary or secondary schools; (2) any building that is owned or operated by a public utility, public utility affiliate, telecommunications carrier or its affiliate as defined in the Public Utilities Act or independent electric generators; or (3) administrative buildings owned and operated by a manufacturer. Provides that the successor contractor's management of the business and the direction of its personnel, including the right to hire, discipline and discharge employees for just cause is vested exclusively in the contractor (rather than the successor contractor shall not discharge without cause an employee retained pursuant to the Act). Provides that the contractor may require employees to submit to a criminal background check by the Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Changes the transition employment period to 25 working days (rather than 90 days). Effective immediately.

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