Bill Text: IL HB2191 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act. Provides that no public or private employer may take disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker because the employee, when acting as a volunteer worker, is absent from or late to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2191 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB2191-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB2191 Introduced , by Rep. Keith P. Sommer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 748/5
Amends the Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act. Provides that no public or private employer may take disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker because the employee, when acting as a volunteer worker, is absent from or late to his or her employment in order to respond to an emergency. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection
Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(50 ILCS 748/5)
Sec. 5. Volunteer emergency worker; when termination of
employment prohibited.
(a) No public or private employer may terminate or take
disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer
emergency worker because the employee, when acting as a
volunteer emergency worker, is absent from or late to his or
her employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the
time the employee is to report to his or her place of
employment.
(b) An employer may charge, against the employee's regular
pay, any time that an employee who is a volunteer emergency
worker loses from employment because of the employee's response
to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties
as a volunteer emergency worker.
(c) In the case of an employee who is a volunteer emergency
worker and who loses time from his or her employment in order
to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or

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her duties as a volunteer emergency worker, the employer has
the right to request the employee to provide the employer with
a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of
the volunteer fire department or governmental entity that the
volunteer emergency worker serves stating that the employee
responded to an emergency and stating the time and date of the
emergency.
(d) An employee who is a volunteer emergency worker and who
may be absent from or late to his or her employment in order to
respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her
duties as a volunteer emergency worker must make a reasonable
effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be
absent or late.
(Source: P.A. 93-1027, eff. 8-25-04; 94-599, eff. 1-1-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.