(820 ILCS 35/5b) (from Ch. 10, par. 25)
Sec. 5b.
Whenever two or more employers engaged in the same general line of
business, employing in the aggregate not less than twenty-five persons, and
having a common difference with their employees, shall, co-operating
together, make application for arbitration, or whenever such application
shall be made by the employees of two or more employers engaged in the same
general line of business, such employees being not less than twenty-five in
number, and having a common difference with their employers, or whenever
the application shall be made jointly by the employers and employees in such
case, the Department of Labor shall have the same powers and proceed in the
same manner as if the application had been made by one employer, or by the employees
of one employer, or by both.
(Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)
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