Bill Text: IL HB5708 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5708 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5708-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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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 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | (115 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1703)
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| 7 | Sec. 3. Employee rights. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) It shall be lawful for educational employees
to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | organize, form, join, or assist in employee organizations or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | engage in
lawful concerted activities for the the purpose of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | collective bargaining or
other mutual aid and protection or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | bargain collectively through representatives
of their own free | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | choice and, except as provided in Section 11, such employees
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| 14 | shall also have the right to refrain from any or all such | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | activities.
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| 16 | (b) Representatives selected by educational employees in a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | unit appropriate
for collective bargaining purposes shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the exclusive representative
of all the employees in such unit | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | to
bargain on wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | However,
any individual employee or a group of employees may at | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | any time present
grievances to their employer and have them | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | adjusted without the intervention
of the bargaining | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | representative as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent
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| 1 | with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in | ||||||
| 2 | effect, provided
that the bargaining representative has been | ||||||
| 3 | given an opportunity to be present
at such adjustment.
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| 4 | (Source: P.A. 83-1014.)
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