820 ILCS 30/ Employment of Strikebreakers Act.

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820 ILCS 30/0.01

(820 ILCS 30/0.01) (from Ch. 48, par. 2d.9)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Employment of Strikebreakers Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

820 ILCS 30/1

(820 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2e)

Sec. 1.

Definitions.

For the purpose of this Act:

(a) "Lockout" means the action of an employer pursuant to a labor
dispute in temporarily closing a place of employment or preventing an
employee or employees from engaging in their normal course of employment for
the purpose of inducing settlement of the dispute or influencing the conditions
of employment to be agreed on.

(b) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, firm,
corporation, union, or group of employees.

(c) "Professional strikebreaker" means any person who
repeatedly and habitually offers himself for
employment on a temporary basis where a lockout or
strike exists to take the place of an employee whose work has ceased
as a direct consequence of such lockout or strike.

(d) "Strike" means the concerted action of employees
pursuant to a labor dispute in failing to report for work,
engaging in the stoppage of work, picketing (where the effect
of such picketing is to induce any individual not to pick up,
deliver or transport any goods or not to perform any services), or
abstaining from the full and proper performance of the duties of
employment for the purpose of inducing settlement of the dispute
or influencing the conditions of employment to be agreed on.

(e) "Day and temporary labor service agency" has the meaning ascribed to
that term in the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-375, eff. 1-1-04.)

820 ILCS 30/2

(820 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2f)

Sec. 2.

No person shall knowingly employ any
professional strikebreaker in the place of an employee, whose work has ceased
as a direct consequence of a lockout or strike, or knowingly contract
with a day and temporary labor service agency to provide a replacement for the
employee,
during
any period when a lockout or strike is in progress.  Nor
shall any professional strikebreaker take or offer to take
the place in employment of employees involved in a lockout or strike.

Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall be
construed
to prohibit the continued employment of a day or temporary laborer by an
employer if the
day or temporary laborer had already been assigned to work for the employer at
the time
the strike or lockout began.

(Source: P.A. 93-375, eff. 1-1-04.)

820 ILCS 30/3

(820 ILCS 30/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 2g)

Sec. 3.

This Act shall not apply to the employment of
any person whose services are necessary to ensure that the
plant or other property of the employer involved in the
strike or lockout is properly maintained and protected for
the resumption at any time of normal operations.

(Source: P.A. 79-859.)

820 ILCS 30/4

(820 ILCS 30/4) (from Ch. 48, par. 2h)

Sec. 4.

Whoever violates any provision of this Act is guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 79-859.)