HB4504 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB099 16350 JLS 40682 b

99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB4504

Introduced , by Rep. Grant Wehrli

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 105/4b new

Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Provides that: an employer may impose a disciplinary suspension without pay upon certain employees who are exempt from certain overtime pay requirements of the Law; a deduction from the pay of an exempt employee may be made for suspensions of one or more full days imposed in good faith for infractions of workplace conduct rules; the suspension must be imposed pursuant to a written policy applicable to all employees; and an employer, in imposing such a suspension, may deduct from the employee's salary the hourly or daily equivalent of the employee's full salary or any other amount proportional to the time actually missed by the employee.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning employment.

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

Section 5. The Minimum Wage Law is amended by adding Section 4b as follows:

(820 ILCS 105/4b new)

Sec. 4b. Suspension of employees; discipline. An employer may impose a disciplinary suspension without pay upon an employee described in paragraphs D and E of subsection (2) of Section 4a. A deduction from the pay of an exempt employee may be made for suspensions of one or more full days imposed in good faith for infractions of workplace conduct rules. The suspension must be imposed pursuant to a written policy applicable to all employees. In imposing an unpaid suspension upon an employee pursuant to this Section, an employer may deduct from the employee's salary the hourly or daily equivalent of the employee's full salary or any other amount proportional to the time actually missed by the employee.