Bill Text: IL HB2757 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Requires any unit of local government or school district to pay, within a specified time period, the monetary equivalent of all earned vacation and sick time to an employee who is terminating employment.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2757 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB2757-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB2757 Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 115/5 from Ch. 48, par. 39m-5
Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Requires any unit of local government or school district to pay, within a specified time period, the monetary equivalent of all earned vacation and sick time to an employee who is terminating employment.
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act is
amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(820 ILCS 115/5) (from Ch. 48, par. 39m-5)
Sec. 5. Every employer shall pay the final compensation of
separated employees in full, at the time of separation, if
possible, but in no case later than the next regularly
scheduled payday for such employee. Where such employee
requests in writing that his final compensation be paid by
check and mailed to him, the employer shall comply with this
request.
Unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining
agreement, whenever a contract of employment or employment
policy provides for paid vacations, and an employee resigns or
is terminated without having taken all vacation time earned in
accordance with such contract of employment or employment
policy, the monetary equivalent of all earned vacation shall be
paid to him or her as part of his or her final compensation at
his or her final rate of pay and no employment contract or
employment policy shall provide for forfeiture of earned
vacation time upon separation. If the employee is terminating

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employment with any unit of local government or school
district, such payment for earned vacation or any payment for
accrued sick time for which the employee is to be paid upon
separation shall be made to him or her at least 90 days, but
not more than 120 days, after termination of employment, unless
otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement.
(Source: P.A. 83-199.)