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91_SB0186
SDS/910002/MRdo
1 AN ACT to amend the Employment of Strikebreakers Act by
2 changing Sections 1 and 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Employment of Strikebreakers Act is
6 amended by changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
7 (820 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2e)
8 Sec. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this Act:
9 (a) "Lockout" means the action of an employer pursuant
10 to a labor dispute in temporarily closing a place of
11 employment or preventing an employee or employees from
12 engaging in their normal course of employment for the purpose
13 of inducing settlement of the dispute or influencing the
14 conditions of employment to be agreed on.
15 (b) "Person" means any individual, partnership,
16 association, firm, corporation, union, or group of employees.
17 (c) "Professional strikebreaker" means any person who
18 repeatedly and habitually offers himself for employment on a
19 temporary basis where a lockout or strike exists to take the
20 place of an employee whose work has ceased as a direct
21 consequence of such lockout or strike.
22 (d) "Strike" means the concerted action of employees
23 pursuant to a labor dispute in failing to report for work,
24 engaging in the stoppage of work, picketing (where the effect
25 of such picketing is to induce any individual not to pick up,
26 deliver or transport any goods or not to perform any
27 services), or abstaining from the full and proper performance
28 of the duties of employment for the purpose of inducing
29 settlement of the dispute or influencing the conditions of
30 employment to be agreed on.
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1 (e) "Day labor" means temporary labor or employment that
2 is occasional or irregular at which a person is employed for
3 not longer that the time period required to complete the
4 temporary assignment for which the person was hired and where
5 wage payments are made directly or indirectly by the day
6 labor service or the third party employer for work performed
7 by day laborers under a contract between the day labor
8 service and the third party employer.
9 (f) "Temporary day labor service" means any person or
10 entity engaged in the business of employing day laborers to
11 provide services to or for any third party employer.
12 (Source: P.A. 79-859.)
13 (820 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2f)
14 Sec. 2. No person shall knowingly employ any
15 professional strikebreaker in the place of an employee, whose
16 work has ceased as a direct consequence of a lockout or
17 strike, or knowingly contract with a temporary day labor
18 service to provide a replacement for such employee, during
19 any period when a lockout or strike is in progress. Nor
20 shall any professional strikebreaker take or offer to take
21 the place in employment of employees involved in a lockout or
22 strike.
23 (Source: P.A. 79-859.)