Bill Text: IL HB1606 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited inquiries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1606 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1606-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning employment.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | (820 ILCS 55/10) (from Ch. 48, par. 2860)
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| 7 | Sec. 10. Prohibited inquiries. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) It shall be unlawful for any employer
to inquire, in a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | written application or in any other manner, of any
prospective | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | employee or of the
the prospective employee's previous | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | employers,
whether that prospective employee has ever filed a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | claim for benefits under
the Workers' Compensation Act or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Workers' Occupational Diseases Act or
received benefits under | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | these Acts. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | (b)(1) Except as provided in this subsection, it shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | unlawful for any employer to request or require any employee or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | prospective employee to provide any password or other related | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | account information in order to gain access to the employee's | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | or prospective employee's account or profile on a social | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | networking website or to demand access in any manner to an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | employee's or prospective employee's account or profile on a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | social networking website. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | (2) Nothing in this subsection shall limit an employer's | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | right to: | ||||||
| 2 | (A) promulgate and maintain lawful workplace policies | ||||||
| 3 | governing the use of the employer's electronic equipment, | ||||||
| 4 | including policies regarding Internet use, social | ||||||
| 5 | networking site use, and electronic mail use; and | ||||||
| 6 | (B) monitor usage of the employer's electronic | ||||||
| 7 | equipment and the employer's electronic mail without | ||||||
| 8 | requesting or requiring any employee or prospective | ||||||
| 9 | employee to provide any password or other related account | ||||||
| 10 | information in order to gain access to the employee's or | ||||||
| 11 | prospective employee's account or profile on a social | ||||||
| 12 | networking website. | ||||||
| 13 | (3) Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit an employer | ||||||
| 14 | from obtaining about a prospective employee or an employee | ||||||
| 15 | information that is in the public domain or that is otherwise | ||||||
| 16 | obtained in compliance with this amendatory Act of the 97th | ||||||
| 17 | General Assembly. | ||||||
| 18 | (3.5) Provided that the password, account information, or | ||||||
| 19 | access sought by the employer relates to a professional | ||||||
| 20 | account, and not a personal account, nothing in this subsection | ||||||
| 21 | shall prohibit or restrict an employer from complying with a | ||||||
| 22 | duty to screen employees or applicants prior to hiring or to | ||||||
| 23 | monitor or retain employee communications as required under | ||||||
| 24 | Illinois insurance laws or federal law or by a self-regulatory | ||||||
| 25 | organization as defined in Section 3(A)(26) of the Securities | ||||||
| 26 | Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78(A)(26). | ||||||
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| 1 | (4) For the purposes of this subsection, "social networking | ||||||
| 2 | website" means an Internet-based service that allows | ||||||
| 3 | individuals to: | ||||||
| 4 | (A) construct a public or semi-public profile within a | ||||||
| 5 | bounded system, created by the service; | ||||||
| 6 | (B) create a list of other users with whom they share a | ||||||
| 7 | connection within the system; and | ||||||
| 8 | (C) view and navigate their list of connections and | ||||||
| 9 | those made by others within the system. | ||||||
| 10 | "Social networking website" shall not include electronic | ||||||
| 11 | mail. | ||||||
| 12 | For the purposes of paragraph (3.5) of this subsection, | ||||||
| 13 | "professional account" means an account, service, or profile | ||||||
| 14 | created, maintained, used, or accessed by a current or | ||||||
| 15 | prospective employee for business purposes of the employer. | ||||||
| 16 | For the purposes of paragraph (3.5) of this subsection, | ||||||
| 17 | "personal account" means an account, service, or profile on a | ||||||
| 18 | social networking website that is used by a current or | ||||||
| 19 | prospective employee exclusively for personal communications | ||||||
| 20 | unrelated to any business purposes of the employer. | ||||||
| 21 | (Source: P.A. 97-875, eff. 1-1-13; 98-501, eff. 1-1-14.)
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