20 ILCS 630/ Illinois Emergency Employment Development Act.
(20 ILCS 630/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2401)
Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Emergency Employment Development Act".
(Source: P.A. 84‑792.) |
(20 ILCS 630/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 2402)
Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act, the following words have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section.
(a) "Coordinator" means the Illinois Emergency Employment Development Coordinator appointed under Section 3.
(b) "Eligible business" means a for‑profit business.
(c) "Eligible employer" means an eligible nonprofit agency, or an eligible business.
(d) "Eligible job applicant" means a person who:
A. (1) has been a resident of this State for at
| least one year; and (2) is unemployed; and (3) is not receiving and is not qualified to receive unemployment compensation or workers' compensation; and (4) is determined by the employment administrator to be likely to be available for employment by an eligible employer for the duration of the job; or | |
B. is otherwise eligible for services under the Job |
| Training Partnership Act (29 USCA 1501 et seq.). | |
In addition, a farmer who resides in a county qualified |
| under Federal Disaster Relief and who can demonstrate severe financial need may be considered unemployed under this subsection. | |
(e) "Eligible nonprofit agency" means an organization exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Section 501(c)(3).
(f) "Employment administrator" means the Manager of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Job Training Programs Division or his or her designee.
(g) "Household" means a group of persons living at the same residence consisting of, at a maximum, spouses and the minor children of each.
(h) "Program" means the Illinois Emergency Employment Development Program created by this Act consisting of temporary work relief projects in nonprofit agencies and new job creation in the private sector.
(i) "Service Delivery Area" means that unit or units of local government designated by the Governor pursuant to Title I, Part A, Section 102 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 USCA et seq.).
(j) "Excess unemployed" means the number of unemployed in excess of 6.5% of the service delivery area population.
(k) "Private industry council" means governing body of each service delivery area created pursuant to Title I, Section 102 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 USC 1501 et seq.).
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.) |
(20 ILCS 630/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 2403)
Sec. 3. (a) The governor may appoint an Illinois Emergency Employment Development Coordinator to administer the provisions of this Act. The coordinator shall be within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, but shall be responsible directly to the governor. The coordinator shall have the powers necessary to carry out the purpose of the program.
(b) The coordinator shall:
(1) Coordinate the Program with other State agencies;
(2) Coordinate administration of the program with the |
| general assistance program; |
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(3) Set policy regarding disbursement of program |
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(4) Perform general program marketing and monitoring |
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(c) The coordinator shall administer the program within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall provide administrative support services to the coordinator for the purposes of the program.
(d) The coordinator shall report to the Governor, the Illinois Job Training Coordinating Council and the General Assembly on a quarterly basis concerning (1) the number of persons employed under the program; (2) the number and type of employers under the program; (3) the amount of money spent in each service delivery area for wages for each type of employment and each type of other expenses; (4) the number of persons who have completed participation in the program and their current employment, educational or training status; and (5) any information requested by the General Assembly or governor or deemed pertinent by the coordinator. Each report shall include cumulative information, as well as information for each quarter.
(e) Rules. The Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, with the advice of the coordinator, shall adopt rules for the administration and enforcement of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 96‑995, eff. 1‑1‑11.) |
(20 ILCS 630/4) (from Ch. 48, par. 2404)
Sec. 4. Funds shall be allocated to service delivery areas whose unemployment rate exceeds 6.5%, as determined every June 30 based upon the previous 12‑month unemployment rate for that service delivery area. Each eligible service delivery area shall be allocated funds for a 12‑month period. The amount of funds allocated to each eligible service delivery area shall be in a proportion equal to the number of excess unemployed in the service delivery area relative to the number of excess unemployed in all eligible service delivery areas.
(Source: P.A. 84‑1399.) |
(20 ILCS 630/5) (from Ch. 48, par. 2405)
Sec. 5. (a) Allocation of funds among eligible job applicants within a service delivery area shall be determined by the Private Industry Council for each such service delivery area. The Private Industry Council shall give priority to
(1) applicants living in households with no other
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(2) applicants who would otherwise be eligible to |
| receive general assistance. | |
(b) Allocation of funds among eligible employers within each service delivery area shall be determined by the Private Industry Council for each such area according to the priorities which the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, upon recommendation of the coordinator, shall by rule establish. The Private Industry Council shall give priority to funding private sector jobs to the extent that businesses apply for funds.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.) |
(20 ILCS 630/6) (from Ch. 48, par. 2406)
Sec. 6. Funds appropriated for the purposes of the program shall not exceed $10 million per fiscal year.
Funds appropriated for the purposes of the program may be used as follows:
(a) To provide a State contribution for wages and fringe benefits for eligible job applicants for a maximum of 1,040 hours over a maximum period of 26 weeks per job applicant. For eligible job applicants participating in a job training program, the State contribution for wages may be used for a maximum period of 52 weeks per job applicant. The State contribution for wages shall be 50% of the wages up to a maximum of $4 per hour for each eligible job applicant employed. The State contribution for fringe benefits may be up to $1 per hour for each eligible job applicant employed. However, the employer may use funds from other sources to provide increased wages to the applicants it employs. During the first fiscal year in which the program is in effect, at least 75% of the funds appropriated for the program must be used to pay wages for eligible job applicants. During each subsequent fiscal year in which the program is in effect, at least 85% of the funds appropriated for the program must be used to pay wages for eligible job applicants;
(b) To provide child care services or subsidies to applicants employed under the program;
(c) To provide workers' compensation coverage to applicants employed by nonprofit agencies under the program;
(d) To provide job search assistance, labor market orientation, job seeking skills, and referral for other services;
(e) To purchase supplies and materials for projects creating permanent improvements to public property in an amount not to exceed one percent of the funds appropriated.
(Source: P.A. 84‑792.) |
(20 ILCS 630/7) (from Ch. 48, par. 2407)
Sec. 7. (a) The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall publicize the program and shall provide staff assistance as requested by employment administrators in the screening of businesses and the collection of data.
(b) The Director of Children and Family Services shall provide to each employment administrator lists of currently licensed local day care facilities, updated quarterly, to be available to all persons employed under the program.
(c) The Secretary of Human Services shall take all steps necessary to inform each applicant for public aid of the availability of the program.
(Source: P.A. 94‑793, eff. 5‑19‑06.)
(20 ILCS 630/8) (from Ch. 48, par. 2408)
Sec. 8. A non‑profit agency is an eligible employer with respect to temporary work relief projects determined by the employment administrator to have long‑term benefit to or to be needed by the community. To be an eligible employer a nonprofit agency shall comply with the requirements of Section 9 concerning eligible businesses.
(Source: P.A. 84‑792.) |
(20 ILCS 630/9) (from Ch. 48, par. 2409)
Sec. 9. (a) Eligible businesses. A business employer is an eligible employer if it enters into a written contract, signed and subscribed to under oath, with the employment administrator for its service delivery area containing assurances that:
(1) funds received by a business shall be used only as permitted under the program;
(2) the business has submitted a plan to the employment administrator (1) describing the duties and proposed compensation of each employee proposed to be hired under the program; and (2) demonstrating that with the funds provided under the program the business is likely to succeed and continue to employ persons hired under the program;
(3) the business will use funds exclusively for compensation and fringe benefits of eligible job applicants and will provide employees hired with these funds with fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment comparable to those provided to other employees of the business who do comparable work;
(4) the funds are necessary to allow the business to begin, or to employ additional people, but not to fill positions which would be filled even in the absence of funds from this program;
(5) the business will cooperate with the coordinator in collecting data to assess the result of the program; and
(6) the business is in compliance with all applicable affirmative action, fair labor, health, safety, and environmental standards.
(b) In allocating funds among eligible businesses, the employment administrator shall give priority to businesses which best satisfy the following criteria:
(1) have a high potential for growth and long‑term job creation;
(2) are labor intensive;
(3) make high use of local and State resources;
(4) are under ownership of women and minorities;
(5) have their primary places of business in the State; and
(6) intend to continue the employment of the eligible applicant for at least 6 months of unsubsidized employment.
(c) If the eligible employee remains employed for 6 months of unsubsidized employment, his employer may apply for a bonus equal to 1/6 of the subsidy provided to the employer for that employee under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 84‑1399.) |
(20 ILCS 630/10) (from Ch. 48, par. 2410)
Sec. 10. (1) An eligible employer may not terminate, lay off or reduce the working hours of an employee for the purpose of hiring an individual with funds available under the program.
(2) An eligible employer may not hire an individual with funds available under the program if any other person is on layoff from the same or a substantially equivalent job.
(3) In order to qualify as an eligible employer, a nonprofit agency or business must certify to the employment administrator that each job created and funded under the program
(a) will result in an increase in employment opportunities over those which would otherwise be available;
(b) will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers, including partial displacement such as reduction in hours of nonovertime work, wages or employment benefits; and
(c) will not impair existing contracts for service or result in the substitution of program funds for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed.
(Source: P.A. 85‑1393; 85‑1424; 85‑1440.) |