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820 ILCS 30/1

(820 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2e)

Sec. 1.

Definitions.

For the purpose of this Act:

(a) "Lockout" means the action of an employer pursuant to a labor
dispute in temporarily closing a place of employment or preventing an
employee or employees from engaging in their normal course of employment for
the purpose of inducing settlement of the dispute or influencing the conditions
of employment to be agreed on.

(b) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, firm,
corporation, union, or group of employees.

(c) "Professional strikebreaker" means any person who
repeatedly and habitually offers himself for
employment on a temporary basis where a lockout or
strike exists to take the place of an employee whose work has ceased
as a direct consequence of such lockout or strike.

(d) "Strike" means the concerted action of employees
pursuant to a labor dispute in failing to report for work,
engaging in the stoppage of work, picketing (where the effect
of such picketing is to induce any individual not to pick up,
deliver or transport any goods or not to perform any services), or
abstaining from the full and proper performance of the duties of
employment for the purpose of inducing settlement of the dispute
or influencing the conditions of employment to be agreed on.

(e) "Day and temporary labor service agency" has the meaning ascribed to
that term in the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-375, eff. 1-1-04.)