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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Welfare to Work Act.
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6 | Section 5. Legislative findings; purpose. The General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Assembly hereby finds
that:
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8 | (a) Poverty and welfare dependence are widespread | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | throughout the State of
Illinois. Almost 1,500,000 of its | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | citizens are dependent on the State's public
assistance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | programs for their most basic needs; and over 40,000 families
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12 | rely on cash assistance from the State for all or
part of their | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | subsistence needs.
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14 | (b) Poverty and unemployment diminish individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | self-esteem, can
undermine family stability, and affect family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | formation, community security and
cohesion.
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17 | (c) Under the new federal welfare law, the Personal
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18 | Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 1996, cash assistance
benefits will be limited to 60 months, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | and
over 100,000 adult heads of households in the Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | welfare caseload
must be employed by the year 2002 or they and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | their children will be
destitute.
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23 | (d) Voluntary efforts by the private sector to employ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | welfare recipients are
laudable and are to be commended, but | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | the State must also take direct
responsibility to ensure that | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | welfare recipients are hired in jobs that will
allow them to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | leave the welfare rolls altogether.
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28 | (e) The State spends billions of dollars each year to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | improve its economy
and infrastructure, and to deliver services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | to the people of the State, all of
which also serves to provide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | jobs for its citizens.
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32 | (f) The State can accomplish the objectives of relieving |
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1 | welfare dependency
and ensuring economic self-sufficiency as | ||||||
2 | well as the objectives related to
carrying out
necessary | ||||||
3 | governmental operations at the same time, and with significant
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4 | savings in State outlays in cash assistance and supportive | ||||||
5 | service dollars.
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6 | (g) Poverty and welfare dependency can be alleviated by | ||||||
7 | targeting some of
the resources of the State and making jobs | ||||||
8 | available to the welfare poor,
specifically by bringing | ||||||
9 | qualified poor persons into the State workforce and
into the | ||||||
10 | workforces that are generated through State contracts, without | ||||||
11 | causing
the displacement of existing workers.
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12 | (h) Some State jobs that are newly created or that are open | ||||||
13 | through
attrition and some jobs created under State contracts, | ||||||
14 | can be filled by
qualified welfare recipients without | ||||||
15 | compromising the integrity of the hiring
process, contractor | ||||||
16 | profits, collective bargaining agreements, timely
completion | ||||||
17 | of projects, or the health and safety of Illinois workers.
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18 | (i) To the extent that these jobs are filled by welfare | ||||||
19 | recipients, the
State accomplishes 4 important governmental | ||||||
20 | objectives simultaneously: (1)
the alleviation of welfare | ||||||
21 | dependency, ensuring of economic self-sufficiency,
and lifting | ||||||
22 | of individuals and families out of poverty, (2) the | ||||||
23 | stabilization
of families and communities that are hardest hit | ||||||
24 | by persistent poverty and
unemployment, (3) the accomplishment | ||||||
25 | of the essential work of the State which
must be performed | ||||||
26 | through these jobs, and (4) the reduction of State outlays
for | ||||||
27 | cash assistance and services for the poor.
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28 | (j) The State's immediate, direct and significant interest | ||||||
29 | in relieving
welfare dependency and the employment of the poor | ||||||
30 | in jobs generated through
the expenditure of State funds | ||||||
31 | constitutes the basis of this Act.
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32 | Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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33 | "Aid recipient" means:
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34 | (a) a person financially eligible to receive cash | ||||||
35 | assistance under the
Temporary
Assistance for Needy |
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1 | Families program, the Transitional Assistance program, or
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2 | any
other cash
assistance program administered by the | ||||||
3 | Department of
Human Services financed in whole or
in part | ||||||
4 | by the State;
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5 | (b) a person financially eligible for cash assistance | ||||||
6 | under Article VI of
the
Public Aid Code, whether receiving | ||||||
7 | assistance or not; an Earnfare participant;
and an | ||||||
8 | unemployed person or employed person who is earning less | ||||||
9 | than the
poverty level in wages and who is also married to | ||||||
10 | the parent of a child
receiving cash assistance or the | ||||||
11 | legally adjudicated father of a child
receiving cash | ||||||
12 | assistance; and
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13 | (c) a person who, within the previous 60 months, has | ||||||
14 | been found eligible
and
placed for training or employment | ||||||
15 | under the United States Department of Housing
and
Urban | ||||||
16 | Development's Section 3 program, or under any other local, | ||||||
17 | state, or
federal government program that creates training | ||||||
18 | or hiring preferences or
priorities for low income persons, | ||||||
19 | and who was, at the time of entry into such
program an "aid | ||||||
20 | recipient" as defined under paragraph (a) or (b) of this
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21 | definition.
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22 | "Contracts for personal services" has the same meaning as | ||||||
23 | under Section 14 of
the State Finance Act.
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24 | "Covered contract" means a contract, aid, or grant between | ||||||
25 | the State and any
other
entity or entities, whether private, | ||||||
26 | public, or not-for-profit, regardless of
the purpose of the | ||||||
27 | contract, aid, or grant, and means contracts, aid, and
grants
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28 | between those entities and their contractors and | ||||||
29 | subcontractors, but only if
the contract or grant is payable by | ||||||
30 | the State in an amount in excess of
$250,000 or a subcontract | ||||||
31 | is for an amount in excess of $100,000. Recipients of
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32 | contracts, aid, and grants may not divide contracts or spread | ||||||
33 | out the work to
be undertaken for purposes of avoiding having a | ||||||
34 | covered contract.
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35 | "Covered employee" means a person who is found eligible for | ||||||
36 | employment and
hired under this Act.
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1 | "Covered employer" means an employer in receipt of a | ||||||
2 | "covered contract"
payment and thus subject to the requirements | ||||||
3 | of this Act with respect to a
"covered contract".
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4 | "Covered position" means a State-funded position of | ||||||
5 | employment, whether civil
service or under contract for | ||||||
6 | personal services, that the
Department of Human Services has
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7 | not found exempt under Section 25 of this Act.
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8 | "Department" means the Department of Human Services.
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9 | "Qualified aid recipient" means an "aid recipient" who | ||||||
10 | meets each of the
qualifications, including education, | ||||||
11 | training, and experience, if any, that
have been established by | ||||||
12 | the employer for the position.
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13 | "State agencies" means all State departments (whether code | ||||||
14 | or otherwise),
boards, commissions, authorities, councils, | ||||||
15 | officers, bureaus, units, colleges
and universities, and | ||||||
16 | executive, legislative and judicial agencies.
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17 | Section 15. Disclosure of potential covered positions. | ||||||
18 | Simultaneously with
posting its positions or putting a position | ||||||
19 | out for hire by contract, each
State agency shall provide the | ||||||
20 | Department of Employment Security with a copy of
a
job
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21 | announcement specifying the job description and qualifications | ||||||
22 | of each position
that is newly created, is open, or is | ||||||
23 | otherwise posted for hire or for hire
under contract. This | ||||||
24 | requirement does not apply when the position is one that
is | ||||||
25 | subject to recall by a laid-off employee or employees.
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26 | Section 20. Duties of the Department of Employment | ||||||
27 | Security.
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28 | (a) The Department of Employment Security shall place these | ||||||
29 | positions on the
Illinois Skills Match System.
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30 | (b) If the Department of Employment Security determines | ||||||
31 | there are no or too
few potentially
qualified aid recipients to | ||||||
32 | identify readily for referral for the position, the
Department | ||||||
33 | shall provide the State agency with a notice exempting that | ||||||
34 | position
from the provisions of this Act. The Department may |
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1 | permanently or temporarily
exempt a position.
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2 | (c) If the position is permanently exempted, the State | ||||||
3 | agency need not
provide the Department of Employment Security | ||||||
4 | with position announcements for
that position
in the future. | ||||||
5 | However, if an
exemption
of any position is revoked, from the | ||||||
6 | point of that revocation forward, the
State
agency again shall | ||||||
7 | provide the Department of Employment Security with
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8 | announcements of that
position.
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9 | (d) If the position is temporarily exempted, the provisions | ||||||
10 | of this Act do
not apply to the position, but the State agency | ||||||
11 | must provide announcements to
the Department of Employment | ||||||
12 | Security of future openings of that position.
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13 | (e) If the position is not determined by the Department of | ||||||
14 | Employment
Security to be
exempted, it is a covered position | ||||||
15 | under this Act.
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16 | Section 30. Eligibility determinations. Upon the request | ||||||
17 | of a person who
believes that he or she is an aid recipient | ||||||
18 | within the meaning of this Act or
the request of a State agency | ||||||
19 | or covered employer on behalf of such a person,
the Department | ||||||
20 | shall make the determination of whether the person is an aid
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21 | recipient within the meaning of this Act and shall provide the | ||||||
22 | necessary
written proof of aid recipient status to the aid | ||||||
23 | recipient and to any other
person, including the party making | ||||||
24 | request on behalf of the aid recipient, if
the aid recipient | ||||||
25 | authorizes it in writing.
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26 | Section 35. Recruitment, screening, and referrals to | ||||||
27 | training and for jobs
under this Act.
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28 | (a) In order to facilitate a steady stream of potentially | ||||||
29 | qualified aid
recipients into positions available under this | ||||||
30 | Act, the Department of Human
Services shall:
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31 | (1) register all TANF recipients in the Illinois Skills | ||||||
32 | Match System and
work
with public, private, and | ||||||
33 | not-for-profit job training programs
and
certified joint | ||||||
34 | apprenticeship training programs to develop and make use of
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1 | training programs to facilitate channeling aid recipients | ||||||
2 | into such training
programs that correspond with, and will | ||||||
3 | qualify them for, open covered
positions and positions | ||||||
4 | under covered contracts;
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5 | (2) coordinate the recruitment, screening, and | ||||||
6 | referrals for placement of
aid recipients in education and | ||||||
7 | training programs that correspond with the job
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8 | qualifications and requirements of covered positions and | ||||||
9 | positions under
covered contracts;
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10 | (3) coordinate the recruitment, screening, and | ||||||
11 | referrals of potentially
qualified aid recipients to | ||||||
12 | employers for open covered positions and positions
under | ||||||
13 | covered contracts;
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14 | (b) The Department shall maintain an equal balance in its | ||||||
15 | referrals of
potentially qualified aid recipients to training | ||||||
16 | programs, to employers for
covered positions, and to positions | ||||||
17 | under covered contracts as identified on
the Illinois Match | ||||||
18 | System as appropriate as between those
who
qualify under | ||||||
19 | paragraph (a) of the definition of "aid recipient" in Section | ||||||
20 | 10
of this Act.
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21 | (c) The duties of the Department specified in this Section | ||||||
22 | may be carried
out, in whole or in part, under contracts | ||||||
23 | entered into by the Department with
units of local government | ||||||
24 | or by not-for-profit community based organizations.
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25 | Section 40. Hiring without referrals authorized. Any aid | ||||||
26 | recipient who
believes he or she is a qualified aid recipient | ||||||
27 | may apply, through the Illinois
Skills Match System and without | ||||||
28 | a referral
by the Department, for jobs under this Act. For any | ||||||
29 | covered position,
whether previously determined by the | ||||||
30 | Department to be a covered
position or not, if the Illinois | ||||||
31 | Skills Match System finds the applicant to be
a qualified
aid | ||||||
32 | recipient, the applicant shall be provided the preference this | ||||||
33 | Act affords.
For any position under a covered contract, the | ||||||
34 | employer may count, under the
requirements imposed under this | ||||||
35 | Act, any aid recipient hired, whether referred
by the |
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1 | Department or not, as an employee meeting the requirements | ||||||
2 | during the
life of the contract.
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3 | Section 45. Hiring requirements relative to covered | ||||||
4 | positions.
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5 | (a) Verification that an applicant for a position is an aid | ||||||
6 | recipient shall
be made by the State agency, if necessary, by | ||||||
7 | copying for its records the
applicant's
public aid card or such | ||||||
8 | other proof of aid recipient status as has been
provided to the | ||||||
9 | aid recipient or employer by the Department of Human Services.
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10 | (b) The State agency shall provide qualified aid recipients | ||||||
11 | with a hiring
preference in accordance with the requirements | ||||||
12 | for civil service positions
under Section 8b.7-1 of the | ||||||
13 | Personnel Code, and for personal service contract
positions, | ||||||
14 | under Section 45-70 of the Illinois Procurement Code.
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15 | (c) The minimum qualifications for hire, wages, days per | ||||||
16 | week, hours per
day, shifts of employment, and terms and | ||||||
17 | conditions of employment of a
qualified aid recipient who is | ||||||
18 | hired under this Act shall be the same as for
other members of | ||||||
19 | the employer's workforce doing the same or similar work and
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20 | shall be subject to the same State and federal laws.
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21 | (d) Nothing in this Act prevents a State agency from | ||||||
22 | counting a person hired
under this Act, who is also a protected | ||||||
23 | female or minority, toward that
employer's affirmative action | ||||||
24 | obligations that may otherwise be imposed.
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25 | (e) Nothing in this Act diminishes the full authority and | ||||||
26 | prerogative of
State agencies to determine independently an aid | ||||||
27 | recipient's
qualifications and to make independently all | ||||||
28 | hiring decisions, based on merit,
under this Act.
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29 | Section 50. Contract requirements. Each covered contract | ||||||
30 | shall contain
provisions incorporating all of the following | ||||||
31 | requirements:
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32 | (a) Not less than 5% of the hours worked under positions | ||||||
33 | that are paid under
a covered contract shall be worked by | ||||||
34 | qualified aid recipients.
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1 | (b) In order to facilitate compliance with this Act, a | ||||||
2 | covered employer may
notify the Department of Employment | ||||||
3 | Security of jobs that are opening under the
covered contract | ||||||
4 | for which aid recipients may be qualified in order to receive
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5 | referrals of aid recipients through the Illinois Skills Match | ||||||
6 | System.
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7 | (c) The covered employer shall verify that an applicant for | ||||||
8 | a position is an
aid recipient, and shall maintain a record of | ||||||
9 | the aid recipient's status by
copying for its records the | ||||||
10 | applicant's public aid card or such other proof of
aid | ||||||
11 | recipient status as has been provided to the recipient or | ||||||
12 | employer by the
Department of Human Services.
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13 | (d) The covered employer shall make the determination of | ||||||
14 | whether an aid
recipient who applies for the position is a | ||||||
15 | qualified aid recipient. Nothing
in this Act implies a | ||||||
16 | diminution of the full authority and prerogative of
covered | ||||||
17 | employers to determine independently an aid recipient's
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18 | qualifications and to make independently all hiring decisions | ||||||
19 | under this Act.
No State agency may require an employer to hire | ||||||
20 | an aid recipient who is not
qualified for the position for | ||||||
21 | which the aid recipient is applying.
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22 | (e) The number of covered employees in a workforce shall be | ||||||
23 | calculated as
follows: the number of total hours worked under | ||||||
24 | the contract are the "worker
hours". The number of hours that | ||||||
25 | covered employees have worked under the
contract are the | ||||||
26 | "covered employee hours". The "covered employee hours" shall
be | ||||||
27 | divided by the "worker hours" and the product shall be no less | ||||||
28 | than 0.05
during the life of the contract.
If the covered | ||||||
29 | contract includes positions that are otherwise reported to the
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30 | State and federal government only by daily or weekly full time | ||||||
31 | equivalency,
then those positions shall be calculated by | ||||||
32 | dividing the full-time equivalent
of the covered employees in | ||||||
33 | those positions by the total full-time equivalent
for those | ||||||
34 | positions. An employer may sponsor a covered worker in an
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35 | apprenticeship training program or other education or training | ||||||
36 | program, in
which case the employer may count the number of |
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1 | hours or days in off-site
training or classroom instruction | ||||||
2 | toward the requirements of this Section.
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3 | (f) A covered employer who is unable to hire at least 5% of | ||||||
4 | its workforce
from qualified aid recipients under a covered | ||||||
5 | contract shall certify to the
Department of Employment Security | ||||||
6 | the circumstances
which made meeting the requirements of this | ||||||
7 | Act impossible. Permitted
circumstances may include the high | ||||||
8 | percentage of professional, high skilled, or
journey level
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9 | workers needed under the contract, the need to recall out of | ||||||
10 | work
employees who are receiving unemployment compensation | ||||||
11 | through the covered
employer, or other circumstances outside of | ||||||
12 | the control of the covered
employer. If a covered employer has | ||||||
13 | not met the percentage hire requirements
under this Act, and | ||||||
14 | did not notify the Department of jobs that have become
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15 | available under its covered contract, and jobs existed under | ||||||
16 | that contract for
potentially qualified aid recipients, the | ||||||
17 | covered employer shall be deemed to
have been able to hire the | ||||||
18 | requisite percentage of aid recipients under this
Act, and | ||||||
19 | failed to do so.
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20 | (g) At the request of the covered employer to the | ||||||
21 | Department of
Employment Security, the requirements of hiring | ||||||
22 | covered employees under this
Section
may be waived, in advance, | ||||||
23 | by the Department, in whole or in part, in
accordance with | ||||||
24 | rules established by the Department, if enough qualified aid
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25 | recipients are not referred or cannot be hired due to | ||||||
26 | circumstances set forth
in subsection (5). To receive this | ||||||
27 | waiver, the covered employer must request
the
waiver before | ||||||
28 | hiring under the covered contract, and must include in its
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29 | request for the waiver, job descriptions for each of the | ||||||
30 | positions that are
subject to hire under the covered contract, | ||||||
31 | and the number of people estimated
to be hired for each such | ||||||
32 | job.
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33 | (h) The minimum qualifications for hire, and the wages, | ||||||
34 | days per week, hours
per day, shifts of employment, and terms | ||||||
35 | and conditions of employment, of a
covered employee shall be | ||||||
36 | the same as for other members of the employer's
workforce doing |
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1 | the same or similar work and shall be subject to the same State
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2 | and federal laws.
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3 | (i) Covered employees shall abide by all health and safety | ||||||
4 | rules and laws
imposed on a covered employer's workforce.
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5 | (j) This Act does not require covered employers to provide | ||||||
6 | any additional or
separate training or apprenticeship programs | ||||||
7 | for aid recipients that the
employer would not otherwise | ||||||
8 | provide to other workers in the same or similar
jobs at the | ||||||
9 | same or similar level of experience.
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10 | (k) Nothing in this Act prevents a covered employer from | ||||||
11 | counting a covered
employee, who is also a protected female or | ||||||
12 | minority, toward the employer's
affirmative action obligations | ||||||
13 | that may otherwise be imposed.
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14 | Section 55. Duties of the Department of Employment | ||||||
15 | Security. The
Department of Employment Security shall ensure | ||||||
16 | that covered
employers comply with the provisions of this Act | ||||||
17 | and shall work with the
Department of Human Services and the | ||||||
18 | Social Services Advisory Council in
promulgating rules for | ||||||
19 | implementation and governance and to effectuate the
purposes of | ||||||
20 | this Act, including contractor compliance. In promulgating
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21 | compliance rules, the Illinois Department of Employment | ||||||
22 | Security shall create
provisions that
assure that there will be | ||||||
23 | good faith attempts at negotiation and conciliation,
and the | ||||||
24 | affording of the protections of due process of law before any | ||||||
25 | sanctions
against a contractor are imposed.
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26 | Section 60. Compliance and Reporting.
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27 | (a) The Department of Human Services, the Department of | ||||||
28 | Employment Security,
and the
General Assembly are jointly | ||||||
29 | empowered to ensure and monitor covered
employer and State | ||||||
30 | agency compliance with the provisions of this Act.
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31 | (b) The Department of Employment Security shall annually | ||||||
32 | prepare a report to
the
Department of Human Services and the | ||||||
33 | General Assembly demonstrating its hiring
under this Act from | ||||||
34 | the Illinois Skills Match System. The report shall be
submitted |
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1 | to the Department of Human Services and the
minority and | ||||||
2 | majority leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate | ||||||
3 | no
later than January 31 of each year. The report shall set | ||||||
4 | forth, for the
previous calendar year, the total number of | ||||||
5 | positions filled by the State
agency, the number of positions | ||||||
6 | not exempted and thus found to be covered
positions by the | ||||||
7 | Department, and the number of positions filled by aid
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8 | recipients produced from the Illinois Skills Match System.
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9 | (c) The report shall be
subject to public inspection, | ||||||
10 | review, and copying.
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11 | (d) Each covered contractor shall annually prepare a single | ||||||
12 | duplicated
report that documents its hiring practices under | ||||||
13 | this Act that shall be
submitted both to the Department of | ||||||
14 | Employment Security and the Department
of Human Services. The | ||||||
15 | report shall be submitted no later than January 31 of
each
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16 | year. The report shall set forth, for the previous calendar | ||||||
17 | year, for each
covered contract, the calculations of total | ||||||
18 | worker hours and covered employee
hours and the percentage of | ||||||
19 | covered employee hours, and such other data and
information as | ||||||
20 | may be required by rule.
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21 | (e) The Department of Employment Security shall collate the | ||||||
22 | contractor
reports
and shall submit a report to the minority | ||||||
23 | and majority leaders of both chambers
of the General Assembly | ||||||
24 | no later than the first day of March of each
year, with the | ||||||
25 | total worker hours, the total covered employee hours, and the
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26 | percentage of hours of work by covered employees. The | ||||||
27 | Department of
Human Services shall set forth the number of aid | ||||||
28 | recipients who have closed
their
aid cases or had their aid | ||||||
29 | reduced as a result of positions obtained under this
Act, and | ||||||
30 | shall set forth such other data and cost savings as it deems
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31 | appropriate.
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32 | (f) The Department's summary reports shall be subject to | ||||||
33 | public inspection,
review and copying.
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34 | Section 905. The Personnel Code is amended by adding | ||||||
35 | Section 8b.7-1 as
follows:
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1 | (20 ILCS 415/8b.7-1 new)
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2 | Sec. 8b.7-1. Qualified aid recipient preference. For the | ||||||
3 | granting of
preferences to "qualified aid recipients" within | ||||||
4 | the meaning of the Welfare to
Work Act. The preference shall be | ||||||
5 | given
only after the application and provision of veterans | ||||||
6 | preferences under Section
8b.7, unless the applicant is subject | ||||||
7 | to preferences under both veterans and
qualified aid recipient | ||||||
8 | designations, in which case those persons shall take
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9 | precedence. When qualified aid recipients are on eligible lists | ||||||
10 | on the basis
of category rankings such as superior, excellent, | ||||||
11 | well-qualified, and
qualified, they shall be preferred over | ||||||
12 | nonveterans who are not qualified aid
recipients in the same | ||||||
13 | category. Notwithstanding Section 8b.5, when a list is
prepared | ||||||
14 | by numerical rankings, and a qualified aid recipient is one of | ||||||
15 | the top
3 candidates on the basis of the numerical ranking, the | ||||||
16 | qualified aid recipient
shall be appointed, unless one or two | ||||||
17 | of the other candidates is a qualified
veteran.
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18 | Section 910. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by | ||||||
19 | adding Section
45-70 as follows:
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20 | (30 ILCS 500/45-70 new)
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21 | Sec. 45-70. Contracts for personal services; qualified aid | ||||||
22 | recipients.
All contracts for personal services, as defined | ||||||
23 | under Section 14 of the State
Finance Act, shall be subject to | ||||||
24 | the preference of "qualified aid recipients"
within the meaning | ||||||
25 | of the Welfare to Work Act, over others who are similarly
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26 | qualified.
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27 | Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
28 | becoming law.
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