Chapter 820 — EMPLOYMENT

(820 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2a) Sec. 1. No restraining order, award of monetary damages, except for damage done to an employer's property as a result of conduct prohibited by law, or injunction shall be granted by any court of this State in any case involving or growing out…

(820 ILCS 5/1.1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2a.1) Sec. 1.1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Labor Dispute Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 5/1.2) Sec. 1.2. Legislative findings and declaration. The General Assembly finds that a union, union members, sympathizers, and an employer's employees have a right to communicate their dispute with a primary employer to the public by picketing the primary employer whe…

(820 ILCS 5/1.3) Sec. 1.3. Definitions. As used in Section 1.2 through 1.5: "Employee" means any individual permitted to work by an employer in an occupation. "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, governmental or quasi-governmenta…

(820 ILCS 5/1.4) Sec. 1.4. Use of public right of way. (a) Persons engaged in picketing shall be allowed to use public rights of way to apprise the public of the existence of a dispute for the following: (1) The purposes of picketing. (2) The erection of temporary signs announcin…

(820 ILCS 5/1.5) Sec. 1.5. Preemption. The provisions of any ordinance or resolution adopted before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly by any unit of local government that impose restrictions or limitations on the picketing of an …

(820 ILCS 10/0.01) (from Ch. 48, par. 2570) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Collective Bargaining Successor Employer Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2571) Sec. 1. (a) Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization contains a successor clause, such clause shall be binding upon and enforceable against any successor employer who succeeds to the contracting …

(820 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2572) Sec. 2. Whoever violates this Act is guilty of a business offense with a fine not to exceed $5,000. (Source: P.A. 85-300.)

(820 ILCS 12/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Collective Bargaining Freedom Act. (Source: P.A. 101-3, eff. 4-12-19.)

(820 ILCS 12/10) Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: "Employer" includes any person acting as an agent of an employer, directly or indirectly, but does not include the United States or any wholly owned government corporation, or any Federal Reserve Bank, or any State or political …

(820 ILCS 12/15) Sec. 15. Private sector union security agreements. Employers and labor organizations covered by the National Labor Relations Act may, anywhere within the entire State of Illinois, execute and apply agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a cond…

(820 ILCS 12/20) Sec. 20. Authority to enact legislation affecting union security agreements. (a) The authority to enact any legislation, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, or the like that by design or application prohibits, restricts, tends to restrict, or regulates in any manne…

(820 ILCS 12/25) Sec. 25. Private right of action. Any interested party aggrieved by a violation of this Act or any rule adopted under this Act by any local government or political subdivision as described in this Act may file suit in circuit court, in the county where the allege…

(820 ILCS 12/30) Sec. 30. Ordinances; laws; rules void. Any legislation, rule, law, ordinance, or otherwise that restricts or prohibits in any manner the use of union security agreements between an employer and labor organization as authorized under 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(3) is a viola…

(820 ILCS 12/35) Sec. 35. Severability. If any Section, sentence, clause, or part of this Act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this Act. The General Assembly hereby declares that it would have passed this Act,…

(820 ILCS 12/5) Sec. 5. Policy. It is the policy of the State of Illinois that employers, employees, and their labor organizations are free to negotiate collectively. It is also the policy of the State of Illinois that employers, employees, and their labor organizations may freel…

(820 ILCS 12/99) Sec. 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 101-3, eff. 4-12-19.)

(820 ILCS 15/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2b) Sec. 1. Every undertaking or promise hereafter made, whether written or oral, express or implied, constituting or contained in any contract or agreement of hiring or employment between any individual, firm, company, association or corporatio…

(820 ILCS 15/1.1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2b.1) Sec. 1.1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Employment Contract Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 17/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Broadcast Industry Free Market Act. (Source: P.A. 92-496, eff. 1-1-02.)

(820 ILCS 17/10) Sec. 10. Post-employment covenants not to compete are prohibited. (a) No broadcasting industry employer may require in an employment contract that an employee or prospective employee refrain from obtaining employment in a specific geographic area for a specific p…

(820 ILCS 17/15) Sec. 15. Damages. Any person or entity that violates Section 10 of this Act is liable for civil damages, attorney's fees, and costs. (Source: P.A. 92-496, eff. 1-1-02.)

(820 ILCS 17/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: (a) "Broadcasting industry" means television, radio, and cable stations. (b) "Broadcast employee" means any employee of a broadcasting industry employer, other than a sales or management employee. (Source: P.A. 92-496, eff…

(820 ILCS 20/0.01) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.80) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Artistic Contracts by Minors Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

(820 ILCS 20/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.81) Sec. 1. (a) A contract or agreement under which a person is employed or agrees to render artistic or creative services that is entered into during minority and that is otherwise valid may not be disaffirmed upon that ground either during …

(820 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.82) Sec. 2. The approval of the circuit court required under Section 1 may be given upon the petition of either party to the contract or agreement after reasonable notice to the other party as may be fixed by the court. The other party shall …

(820 ILCS 20/9) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.89) Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 86-1395.)

(820 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 48, par. 2b.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Advertisement for Strike Workers Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2c) Sec. 1. No employer shall advertise seeking to hire employees to replace employees on strike or locked out during any period when a strike or lockout is in progress, which strike or lockout has arisen out of a dispute between the management …

(820 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2d) Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not more than $300 for each such violation. Each day such advertising appears shall be deemed a separate offense. (Source: P.A. 77-…

(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) (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 cou…

(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…

(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 resumptio…

(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.)

(820 ILCS 35/0.01) (from Ch. 10, par. 18.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Employee Arbitration Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 35/2) (from Ch. 10, par. 20) Sec. 2. When any controversy or difference not involving questions which may be the subject of a civil action, exists between an employer, whether an individual, copartnership or corporation, employing not less than 25 persons, and his emplo…

(820 ILCS 35/3) (from Ch. 10, par. 21) Sec. 3. The application shall be signed by the employer or by a majority of his or her employees in the department of the business in which the controversy or difference exists, or by both parties, and shall contain a concise statement of th…

(820 ILCS 35/4) (from Ch. 10, par. 22) Sec. 4. Upon receipt of the application, and after such notice, the Department shall proceed as before provided. The decision, in the discretion of the Director of Labor, may be published in the annual report to be made to the Governor on or…

(820 ILCS 35/5) (from Ch. 10, par. 23) Sec. 5. Said decision shall be binding upon the parties who join in said application for six months or until either party has given the other notice in writing of his or their intention not to be bound by the same at the expiration of sixty …

(820 ILCS 35/5a) (from Ch. 10, par. 24) Sec. 5a. In the event of a failure to abide by the decisions of the Department of Labor in any case in which both employer and employees shall have joined in the application, any person or persons aggrieved thereby may file with the clerk o…

(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 appl…

(820 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 10, par. 26) Sec. 6. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the Department of Labor that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened in the State involving an employer and his employees, if he is employing not less than twenty-five persons, the Depar…

(820 ILCS 35/6a) (from Ch. 10, par. 27) Sec. 6a. The mayor of every city, and the president of every incorporated town or village, whenever a strike or lockout involving more than twenty-five employees shall be threatened or has actually occurred within or near such city, incorpo…

(820 ILCS 35/6b) (from Ch. 10, par. 28) Sec. 6b. Whenever there shall exist a strike or a lockout, wherein, in the judgment of the Department of Labor, the general public shall appear likely to suffer injury or inconvenience with respect to food, fuel or light, or the means of co…

(820 ILCS 35/8) (from Ch. 10, par. 30) Sec. 8. Any notice or process issued by the Department of Labor shall be served by any sheriff or coroner to whom it is directed or in whose hands it is placed for service. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3673.)

(820 ILCS 40/0.01) (from Ch. 48, par. 2000) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Personnel Record Review Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(820 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2001) Sec. 1. Definitions. As used in this Act: (a) "Employee" means a person currently employed or subject to recall after layoff or leave of absence with a right to return at a position with an employer or a former employee who has terminated …

(820 ILCS 40/10) (from Ch. 48, par. 2010) Sec. 10. Exceptions. The right of the employee or the employee's designated representative to inspect his or her personnel records does not apply to: (a) Letters of reference for that employee or external peer review documents for academi…