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| 1 | AN ACT concerning employment. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Transportation Benefits Program Act is | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Sections 5 and 20 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (820 ILCS 63/5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Construction industry" means any constructing, altering, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | painting, decorating, demolishing, and adding to or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | subtracting from any building, structure, highway, roadway, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | street, bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | water works, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | structure, project, development, or real property or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | improvement, or any part thereof, whether or not the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | performance of the work involves the addition to, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | fabrication into, any structure, project, development, or real | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | property or improvement of any material or article of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | merchandise. "Construction industry" also includes moving | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | construction-related materials on the job site to or from the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | job site, snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Covered employee" means any person who is employed by a | ||||||
| 2 | covered employer performs an average of at least 35 hours of | ||||||
| 3 | work per week for compensation on a full-time basis. | ||||||
| 4 | "Covered employer" means any individual, partnership, | ||||||
| 5 | association, corporation, limited liability company, | ||||||
| 6 | government, non-profit organization, or business trust that | ||||||
| 7 | directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other | ||||||
| 8 | person, employs or exercises control over wages, hours, or | ||||||
| 9 | working conditions of an employee, and that: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) is located in: Cook County; Warren Township in | ||||||
| 11 | Lake County; Grant Township in Lake County; Frankfort | ||||||
| 12 | Township in Will County; Wheatland Township in Will | ||||||
| 13 | County; Addison Township; Bloomingdale Township; York | ||||||
| 14 | Township; Milton Township; Winfield Township; Downers | ||||||
| 15 | Grove Township; Lisle Township; Naperville Township; | ||||||
| 16 | Dundee Township; Elgin Township; St. Charles Township; | ||||||
| 17 | Geneva Township; Batavia Township; Aurora Township; Zion | ||||||
| 18 | Township; Benton Township; Waukegan Township; Avon | ||||||
| 19 | Township; Libertyville Township; Shields Township; Vernon | ||||||
| 20 | Township; West Deerfield Township; Deerfield Township; | ||||||
| 21 | McHenry Township; Nunda Township; Algonquin Township; | ||||||
| 22 | DuPage Township; Homer Township; Lockport Township; | ||||||
| 23 | Plainfield Township; New Lenox Township; Joliet Township; | ||||||
| 24 | or Troy Township; and | ||||||
| 25 | (2) employs 50 or more covered employees in a | ||||||
| 26 | geographic area specified in paragraph (1) at an address | ||||||
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| 1 | that is located within one mile of fixed-route transit | ||||||
| 2 | service. | ||||||
| 3 | "Public transit" means any transportation system within | ||||||
| 4 | the authority and jurisdiction of the Regional Transportation | ||||||
| 5 | Authority. | ||||||
| 6 | "Transit pass" means any pass, token, fare card, voucher, | ||||||
| 7 | or similar item entitling a person to transportation on public | ||||||
| 8 | transit. | ||||||
| 9 | (Source: P.A. 103-291, eff. 1-1-24.) | ||||||
| 10 | (820 ILCS 63/20) | ||||||
| 11 | Sec. 20. Application of Act. | ||||||
| 12 | (a) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to interfere with, | ||||||
| 13 | impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to | ||||||
| 14 | bargain collectively with their employers through | ||||||
| 15 | representatives of their own choosing in order to establish | ||||||
| 16 | wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable | ||||||
| 17 | minimum standards of the provisions of this Act. Nothing in | ||||||
| 18 | this Act shall be deemed to affect the validity or change the | ||||||
| 19 | terms of bona fide collective bargaining agreements in force | ||||||
| 20 | on the effective date of this Act. After the effective date of | ||||||
| 21 | this Act, requirements of this Act may be waived in a bona fide | ||||||
| 22 | collective bargaining agreement, but only if the waiver is set | ||||||
| 23 | forth explicitly in such agreement in clear and unambiguous | ||||||
| 24 | terms. | ||||||
| 25 | (b) This Act does not apply to a covered employer in the | ||||||
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| 1 | construction industry with respect to employees with whom the | ||||||
| 2 | covered employer has entered into a bona fide collective | ||||||
| 3 | bargaining agreement. | ||||||
| 4 | (Source: P.A. 103-291, eff. 1-1-24.) | ||||||