Bill Text: IL SB1895 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that any individual who serves as either emergency medical services personnel on a volunteer basis or as a firefighter on a volunteer basis may not be disciplined or terminated by his or her employer for responding to an emergency call or emergency text message during work hours that requests the individual's volunteer emergency medical services or volunteer firefighter services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0324 [SB1895 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB1895-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 100-0324 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection | ||||
Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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(50 ILCS 748/5)
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Sec. 5. Volunteer emergency worker; when termination of | ||||
employment prohibited.
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(a) No public or private employer may terminate an employee | ||||
who is a
volunteer
emergency worker because the employee, when | ||||
acting as a volunteer emergency worker, is
absent from or late | ||||
to his or her employment in order to respond to an
emergency | ||||
prior to the time the employee is to report to his or her place | ||||
of
employment.
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(a-5) A public or private employer shall not discipline an | ||||
employee who is a volunteer emergency worker if the employee, | ||||
in the scope of acting as a volunteer emergency worker, | ||||
responds to an emergency phone call or text message during work | ||||
hours that requests the person's volunteer emergency services. | ||||
This subsection (a-5) does not apply to a person employed by a | ||||
public or private vehicle service provider and who is in the | ||||
course of performing services as Emergency Medical Services | ||||
personnel as defined in Section 3.5 of the Emergency Medical | ||||
Services (EMS) Systems Act. This subsection (a-5) shall not | ||
diminish or supersede an employer's written workplace policy, a | ||
collective bargaining agreement, administrative guidelines, or | ||
other applicable written rules administered by the employer. | ||
Existing written policies governing the use of cell phones | ||
shall prevail and control.
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(b) An employer may charge, against the employee's regular | ||
pay, any time
that
an
employee who is a
volunteer emergency | ||
worker loses from employment because of the employee's
response | ||
to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties | ||
as a
volunteer emergency worker.
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(c) In the case of an employee who is a
volunteer emergency | ||
worker and who loses time
from his or her employment in order | ||
to respond to an emergency in the course of
performing his or | ||
her duties as a volunteer emergency worker, the
employer has | ||
the right to request the employee to provide the
employer with | ||
a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of
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the
volunteer fire department or governmental entity that the | ||
volunteer emergency worker serves stating that the employee | ||
responded to an emergency
and stating the time and date of the | ||
emergency.
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(d) An employee who is a
volunteer emergency worker and who | ||
may be absent from or late to his or her
employment in
order to | ||
respond to an emergency in the course of performing his or her | ||
duties
as a volunteer emergency worker must make a reasonable | ||
effort to notify his
or
her employer that he or she may be | ||
absent or late.
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(Source: P.A. 93-1027, eff. 8-25-04; 94-599, eff. 1-1-06.)
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