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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,   trucks   or   farm
17        implements,  if  he  is  employed  by  a nonmanufacturing
18        establishment  primarily  engaged  in  the  business   of
19        selling   such   vehicles   or   implements  to  ultimate
20        purchasers.
21             B.  Any  salesman  primarily  engaged   in   selling
22        trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft,  if  he is employed by a
23        nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged  in  the
24        business  of  selling  trailers,  boats,  or  aircraft to
25        ultimate purchasers.
26             C.  Any employer of agricultural labor, with respect
27        to such agricultural employment.
28             D.  Any governmental body.
29             E.  Any employee employed in a bona fide  executive,
30        administrative  or  professional  capacity, including any
31        radio or television  announcer,  news  editor,  or  chief
 
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 1        engineer,  as  defined  by or covered by the Federal Fair
 2        Labor Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
 3        For bona fide executive, administrative, and professional
 4        employees of not-for-profit  corporations,  the  Director
 5        may,  by  regulation,  adopt  a weekly wage rate standard
 6        lower than that provided for  executive,  administrative,
 7        and  professional  employees covered under the Fair Labor
 8        Standards Act of 1938, as now or hereafter amended.
 9             F.  Any  commissioned  employee  as   described   in
10        paragraph  (i)  of  Section  7  of the Federal Fair Labor
11        Standards  Act  of  1938  and   rules   and   regulations
12        promulgated thereunder, as now or hereafter amended.
13             G.  Any  employment  of  an employee in the stead of
14        another employee of  the  same  employer  pursuant  to  a
15        worktime exchange agreement between employees.
16             H.  Any  employee of a not-for-profit educational or
17        residential child care institution who  (a)  on  a  daily
18        basis  is  directly  involved  in educating or caring for
19        children who (1) are orphans,  foster  children,  abused,
20        neglected   or   abandoned  children,  or  are  otherwise
21        homeless  children    and  (2)  reside   in   residential
22        facilities  of  the institution and (b) is compensated at
23        an annual rate of  not  less  than  $13,000  or,  if  the
24        employee  resides in such facilities and receives without
25        cost board and lodging from such  institution,  not  less
26        than $10,000.
27             I.  Any  employee  employed  as a crew member of any
28        uninspected towing vessel, as defined by Section 2101(40)
29        of Title 46 of the United States Code, operating  in  any
30        navigable  waters in or along the boundaries of the State
31        of Illinois.
32        (3)  Any employer may employ any employee for a period or
33    periods of not more than 10 hours in  the  aggregate  in  any
34    workweek   in  excess  of  the  maximum  hours  specified  in
 
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 1    subsection  (1)  of   this   Section   without   paying   the
 2    compensation for overtime employment prescribed in subsection
 3    (1)  if  during  that  period  or  periods  the  employee  is
 4    receiving remedial education that:
 5             (a)  is provided to employees who lack a high school
 6        diploma  or  educational  attainment  at the eighth grade
 7        level;
 8             (b)  is designed to provide reading and other  basic
 9        skills at an eighth grade level or below; and
10             (c)  does not include job specific training.
11    (Source: P.A. 88-122; 89-453, eff. 1-1-97.)

12        Section  10.  The One Day Rest In Seven Act is amended by
13    changing Section 2 as follows:

14        (820 ILCS 140/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 8b)
15        Sec. 2.    Every  employer  shall  allow  every  employee
16    except  those  specified in this Section at least twenty-four
17    consecutive hours of rest in every calendar week in  addition
18    to  the  regular  period of rest allowed at the close of each
19    working day.
20        This Section does not apply to the following:
21        (1)  Part-time employees whose total work hours  for  one
22    employer during a calendar week do not exceed 20; and
23        (2)  Employees  needed  in case of breakdown of machinery
24    or equipment  or  other  emergency  requiring  the  immediate
25    services of experienced and competent labor to prevent injury
26    to  person,  damage  to  property, or suspension of necessary
27    operation; and
28        (3)  Employees employed in agriculture  or  coal  mining;
29    and
30        (4)  Employees  engaged  in the occupation of canning and
31    processing  perishable   agricultural   products,   if   such
32    employees are employed by an employer in such occupation on a
 
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 1    seasonal  basis  and  for  not  more than 20 weeks during any
 2    calendar year or 12 month period; and
 3        (5)  Employees employed as watchmen or  security  guards;
 4    and
 5        (6)  Employees  who are employed in a bonafide executive,
 6    administrative, or professional capacity or in  the  capacity
 7    of  an  outside salesman, as defined in Section 12 (a) (1) of
 8    the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended,  and  those
 9    employed  as  supervisors as defined in Section 2 (11) of the
10    National Labor Relations Act, as amended; and
11        (7)  Employees who are employed as crew  members  of  any
12    uninspected  towing vessel, as defined by Section 2101(40) of
13    Title  46  of  the  United  States  Code,  operating  in  any
14    navigable waters in or along the boundaries of the  State  of
15    Illinois.
16    (Source: P.A. 78-1297.)

17        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
18    becoming law.

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