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SB 2034 - Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child - Illinois Key Vote

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Title: Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child

Signed by Governor JB Pritzker


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Title: Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with house amendments and pass a bill that requires large employers with at least 250 full time employees to provide 12 weeks of paid family leave for employees who experience the loss of a child.

Highlights:

  • Authorizes an employee of a large employer (250 employees or more) to use a maximum of 12 weeks unpaid leave if the employee experiences the loss of a child by suicide or homicide (Sec. 10).

  • Authorizes an employee of a small employer (less than 250 employees) to use a maximum of 6 weeks unpaid leave if the employee experiences the loss of a child by suicide or homicide (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employee to take leave either in a single continuous period or in increments of no less than 4 hours (Sec. 10). 

  • Requires an employee to take the leave within one year after notifying the employer of the loss (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employer to require reasonably advance notice of the employee’s intention to take leave unless providing such notice is unreasonable (Sec. 10).

  • Authorizes an employer to require documentation and cause of child’s death (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employee entitled to take paid or unpaid leave from employment to substitute any period of that leave for an equivalent period of leave provided under this act (Sec. 15).

  • Requires an employee, on return from bereavement leave, be restored (Sec. 20): 

    • To the position of employment held when leave started; or

    • To an equivalent position with equivalent employment benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment. 

  • Prohibits the loss of any employment benefit accrued by the employee prior to the start of the leave (Sec. 20). 

  • Prohibits the restored employee from accruing any benefits to which the employee would have been entitled if the employee did not take the leave (Sec. 20). 

  • Prohibits employer from taking any adverse action against an employee because the employee (Sec. 25):

    • Exercised their rights under this act;

    • Opposes practices the employee believes is in violation of this act; or

    • Supports another employee’s exercise of rights under this act.

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Title: Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires large employers with at least 250 full time employees to provide 12 weeks of paid family leave for employees who experience the loss of a child.

Highlights:

  • Authorizes an employee of a large employer (250 employees or more) to use a maximum of 12 weeks unpaid leave if the employee experiences the loss of a child by suicide or homicide (Sec. 10).

  • Authorizes an employee of a small employer (less than 250 employees) to use a maximum of 6 weeks unpaid leave if the employee experiences the loss of a child by suicide or homicide (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employee to take leave either in a single continuous period or in increments of no less than 4 hours (Sec. 10). 

  • Requires an employee to take the leave within one year after notifying the employer of the loss (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employer to require reasonably advance notice of the employee’s intention to take leave unless providing such notice is unreasonable (Sec. 10).

  • Authorizes an employer to require documentation and cause of child’s death (Sec. 10). 

  • Authorizes an employee entitled to take paid or unpaid leave from employment to substitute any period of that leave for an equivalent period of leave provided under this act (Sec. 15).

  • Requires an employee, on return from bereavement leave, be restored (Sec. 20): 

    • To the position of employment held when leave started; or

    • To an equivalent position with equivalent employment benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment. 

  • Prohibits the loss of any employment benefit accrued by the employee prior to the start of the leave (Sec. 20). 

  • Prohibits the restored employee from accruing any benefits to which the employee would have been entitled if the employee did not take the leave (Sec. 20). 

  • Prohibits employer from taking any adverse action against an employee because the employee (Sec. 25):

    • Exercised their rights under this act;

    • Opposes practices the employee believes is in violation of this act; or

    • Supports another employee’s exercise of rights under this act.

Full Bill Text

Title: Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child

Title: Requires Large Employers Provide 12 Weeks of Paid Family Leave for Employees that Experience the Loss of a Child

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