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SB62 Engrossed                                LRB9202676MWpkA

 1        AN  ACT  to  provide  notification   regarding   employer
 2    responsibilities  under  the  federal  Worker  Adjustment and
 3    Retraining Notification Act.

 4        WHEREAS, workers facing plant closings  or  mass  layoffs
 5    can   benefit   from  retraining  and  readjustment  services
 6    provided before their termination; and

 7        WHEREAS,   the   Department   of   Employment    Security
 8    coordinates   and   provides   retraining   and  readjustment
 9    services,  including  outreach  to  possible  new  employers,
10    placement  services,  and  pre-layoff  workshops  to   inform
11    workers  about  services  available to ease the transition to
12    new employment, to employees facing termination; and

13        WHEREAS, the federal  Worker  Adjustment  and  Retraining
14    Notification Act (WARN) requires certain employers to provide
15    notice  of  impending  plant  closings or mass layoffs to the
16    entity designated by the State of Illinois to  provide  rapid
17    response  activities  under  the federal Workforce Investment
18    Act; and

19        WHEREAS,  the  State  of  Illinois  has  designated   the
20    Department  of  Employment Security, Job Training Division as
21    the entity that provides rapid response activities under  the
22    federal Workforce Investment Act; and

23        WHEREAS, employers at times fail to provide notice to the
24    Department  of  Employment Security, Job Training Division as
25    required by the WARN Act; therefore

26        Be it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,
27    represented in the General Assembly:

28        Section 5.  The Department of Employment Security Law  of
29    the  Civil  Administrative  Code  of  Illinois  is amended by
30    adding Section 1005-60 as follows:
 
SB62 Engrossed              -2-               LRB9202676MWpkA
 1        (20 ILCS 1005/1005-60 new)
 2        Sec. 1005-60. Advisory notice.  Before  September  30  of
 3    each  year,  the  Department  must  issue  a written advisory
 4    notice to each employer that reported to the Department  that
 5    the  employer  paid  wages  to  100  or more individuals with
 6    respect to any quarter in the immediately preceding  calendar
 7    year.   The  notice  must  indicate  that the employer may be
 8    subject to  the  federal  Worker  Adjustment  and  Retraining
 9    Notification Act and must generally advise the employer about
10    the  requirements  of  the  Act and the remedies provided for
11    violations of that Act.

12        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
13    becoming law.

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