Bill Text: IL HB4143 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks (rather than an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for any week) with respect to which it is found that his total or partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which he is or was last employed. Provides that, after the 2 week period, the individual will be eligible for benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-10-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4143 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4143-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4143 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 405/604 from Ch. 48, par. 434
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks (rather than an individual shall be ineligible for benefits for any week) with respect to which it is found that his total or partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which he is or was last employed. Provides that, after the 2 week period, the individual will be eligible for benefits.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
changing Section 604 as follows:
(820 ILCS 405/604) (from Ch. 48, par. 434)
Sec. 604. Labor dispute. An individual shall be ineligible
for benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks
any week with respect to which it is found that his total or
partial unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists
because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or
other premises at which he is or was last employed. After the 2
week period, the individual will be eligible for benefits. The
term "labor dispute" does not include an individual's refusal
to work because of his employer's failure to pay accrued
earned wages within 10 working days from the date due, or to
pay any other uncontested accrued obligation arising out of
his employment within 10 working days from the date due.
For the purpose of disqualification under this Section the
term "labor dispute" does not include a lockout by an
employer, and no individual shall be denied benefits by reason
of a lockout, provided that no individual shall be eligible
for benefits during a lockout who is ineligible for benefits

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under another Section of this Act, and provided further that
no individual locked out by an employer shall be eligible for
benefits for any week during which (1) the recognized or
certified collective bargaining representative of the locked
out employees refuses to meet under reasonable conditions with
the employer to discuss the issues giving rise to the lockout
or (2) there is a final adjudication under the National Labor
Relations Act that during the period of the lockout the
recognized or certified collective bargaining representative
of the locked-out employees has refused to bargain in good
faith with the employer over issues giving rise to the
lockout, or (3) the lockout has resulted as a direct
consequence of a violation by the recognized or certified
collective bargaining representative of the locked out
employees of the provisions of an existing collective
bargaining agreement. An individual's total or partial
unemployment resulting from any reduction in operations or
reduction of force or layoff of employees by an employer made
in the course of or in anticipation of collective bargaining
negotiations between a labor organization and such employer,
is not due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a
labor dispute until the date of actual commencement of a
strike or lockout.
This Section shall not apply if it is shown that (A) the
individual is not participating in or financing or directly
interested in the labor dispute which caused the stoppage of

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