Bill Text: IL HB1083 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, any provision in a collective bargaining agreement that would limit the ability of a public employer to investigate the conduct of an employee of the public employer is declared to be against public policy and unenforceable unless the limitation is otherwise required by State or federal law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1083 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1083-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1083 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 315/20 from Ch. 48, par. 1620
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, any provision in a collective bargaining agreement that would limit the ability of a public employer to investigate the conduct of an employee of the public employer is declared to be against public policy and unenforceable unless the limitation is otherwise required by State or federal law.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is
amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
(5 ILCS 315/20) (from Ch. 48, par. 1620)
Sec. 20. Prohibitions.
(a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require an
individual employee to render labor or service without his
consent, nor shall anything in this Act be construed to make
the quitting of his labor by an individual employee an illegal
act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the
performance by an individual employee of such labor or
service, without his consent; nor shall the quitting of labor
by an employee or employees in good faith because of
abnormally dangerous conditions for work at the place of
employment of such employee be deemed a strike under this Act.
(b) This Act shall not be applicable to units of local
government employing less than 5 employees at the time the
Petition for Certification or Representation is filed with the
Board. This prohibition shall not apply to bargaining units in
existence on the effective date of this Act and units of local
government employing more than 5 employees where the total

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number of employees falls below 5 after the Board has
certified a bargaining unit.
(c) On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 103rd General Assembly, any provision in a collective
bargaining agreement that would limit the ability of a public
employer to investigate the conduct of an employee of the
public employer is declared to be against public policy and
unenforceable unless the limitation is otherwise required by
State or federal law.
(Source: P.A. 93-442, eff. 1-1-04; 93-1080, eff. 6-1-05;
94-67, eff. 1-1-06.)