Bill Amendment: IL SB1895 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
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Bill Title: VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY WORKER
Status: 2017-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0324 [SB1895 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1895-Senate_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY WORKER
Status: 2017-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0324 [SB1895 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1895-Senate_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1895
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1895 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection | ||||||
5 | Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 748/5)
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7 | Sec. 5. Volunteer emergency worker; when termination of | ||||||
8 | employment prohibited.
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9 | (a) No public or private employer may terminate an employee | ||||||
10 | who is a
volunteer
emergency worker because the employee, when | ||||||
11 | acting as a volunteer emergency worker, is
absent from or late | ||||||
12 | to his or her employment in order to respond to an
emergency | ||||||
13 | prior to the time the employee is to report to his or her place | ||||||
14 | of
employment.
A public or private employer shall not | ||||||
15 | discipline an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker if | ||||||
16 | the employee, in the scope of acting as a volunteer emergency |
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1 | worker, responds to an emergency phone call or text message | ||||||
2 | during work hours that requests the person's volunteer | ||||||
3 | emergency services unless the person is employed by a public or | ||||||
4 | private vehicle service provider and is in the course of | ||||||
5 | performing services as Emergency Medical Services personnel as | ||||||
6 | defined in Section 3.5 of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) | ||||||
7 | Systems Act.
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8 | (b) An employer may charge, against the employee's regular | ||||||
9 | pay, any time
that
an
employee who is a
volunteer emergency | ||||||
10 | worker loses from employment because of the employee's
response | ||||||
11 | to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties | ||||||
12 | as a
volunteer emergency worker.
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13 | (c) In the case of an employee who is a
volunteer emergency | ||||||
14 | worker and who loses time
from his or her employment in order | ||||||
15 | to respond to an emergency in the course of
performing his or | ||||||
16 | her duties as a volunteer emergency worker, the
employer has | ||||||
17 | the right to request the employee to provide the
employer with | ||||||
18 | a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of
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19 | the
volunteer fire department or governmental entity that the | ||||||
20 | volunteer emergency worker serves stating that the employee | ||||||
21 | responded to an emergency
and stating the time and date of the | ||||||
22 | emergency.
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23 | (d) An employee who is a
volunteer emergency worker and who | ||||||
24 | may be absent from or late to his or her
employment in
order to | ||||||
25 | respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her | ||||||
26 | duties
as a volunteer emergency worker must make a reasonable |
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1 | effort to notify his
or
her employer that he or she may be | ||||||
2 | absent or late.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 93-1027, eff. 8-25-04; 94-599, eff. 1-1-06.)".
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