Bill Text: IL SB3475 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to use of lawful products that could impair or is impairing (rather than which impairs) an employee's ability to perform the employee's assigned duties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3475 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB3475-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,
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| 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 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (820 ILCS 55/5) (from Ch. 48, par. 2855)
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| 7 | Sec. 5. Discrimination for use of lawful products | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | prohibited.
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| 9 | (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | including Section 10-50 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | and except as
provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Section, it shall be unlawful
for an employer to refuse to hire | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | or to discharge any individual, or
otherwise disadvantage any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | individual, with respect to compensation, terms,
conditions or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | privileges of employment because the individual uses lawful
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| 16 | products off the premises of the employer during nonworking and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | non-call hours. As used in this Section, "lawful products" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | means products that are legal under state law. For purposes of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | this Section, an employee is deemed on-call when the employee | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | is scheduled with at least 24 hours' notice by his or her | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | employer to be on standby or otherwise responsible for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | performing tasks related to his or her employment either at the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | employer's premises or other previously designated location by | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | his or her employer or supervisor to perform a work-related | ||||||
| 2 | task.
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| 3 | (b) This Section does not apply to any employer that is a | ||||||
| 4 | non-profit
organization that, as one of its primary purposes or | ||||||
| 5 | objectives,
discourages the use of one or more lawful products | ||||||
| 6 | by the general public.
This Section does not apply to the use | ||||||
| 7 | of those lawful products that could impair or is impairing | ||||||
| 8 | which
impairs an employee's ability to perform the employee's | ||||||
| 9 | assigned duties.
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| 10 | (c) It is not a violation of this Section for an employer | ||||||
| 11 | to offer,
impose or have in effect a health, disability or life | ||||||
| 12 | insurance policy that
makes distinctions between employees for | ||||||
| 13 | the type of coverage or the price
of coverage based upon the | ||||||
| 14 | employees' use of lawful products provided that:
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| 15 | (1) differential premium rates charged employees | ||||||
| 16 | reflect a
differential cost to the employer; and
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| 17 | (2) employers provide employees with a statement | ||||||
| 18 | delineating the
differential rates used by insurance | ||||||
| 19 | carriers.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19.)
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