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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB2888
Introduced 1/16/2026, by Sen. Craig Wilcox
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 192/10
Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include: (1) a student enrolled in and regularly attending classes in a college or university, who is employed for less than an average of 30 hours per week by an employer, and who is not a participant in an adult education and literacy program at that college or university; or (2) a student enrolled in and regularly attending high school classes, who is under 18 years of age, and who is employed on a temporary or less than full time basis.
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A BILL FOR
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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4    Section 5. The Paid Leave for All Workers Act is amended by
5changing Section 10 as follows:
6    (820 ILCS 192/10)
7    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
8    "Construction industry" means any constructing, altering,
9reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing,
10refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom
11fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking,
12painting, decorating, demolishing, or adding to or subtracting
13from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street,
14bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant,
15waterworks, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other
16structure, project, development, real property, or
17improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the
18performance of the work herein described involves the addition
19to or fabrication into, any structure, project, development,
20real property, or improvement herein described of any material
21or article of merchandise.
22    "Construction industry" also includes moving construction
23related materials on the job site or to or from the job site,
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1snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection.
2    "Department" means the Illinois Department of Labor.
3    "Domestic work" and "domestic worker" have the same
4meanings as defined in Section 10 of the Domestic Workers'
5Bill of Rights Act, except that "domestic worker" also
6includes independent contractors, sole proprietors, and
7partnerships.
8    "Employee" has the same application and meaning as that
9provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
10Collection Act. "Employee" also includes all domestic workers,
11and, for the purposes of this Act, domestic workers shall not
12be excluded as employees under the provisions of item (1),
13(2), or (3) of Section 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
14Collection Act. "Employee" does not include:
15        (1) an employee as defined in the federal Railroad
16    Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) or the
17    Railway Labor Act;
18        (2) a student enrolled in and regularly attending
19    classes in a college or university that is also the
20    student's employer, and who is employed on a temporary
21    basis at less than full time at the college or university,
22    but this exclusion applies only to work performed for that
23    college or university; [or]
24        (3) a short-term employee who is employed by an
25    institution of higher education for less than 2
26    consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and
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1    who does not have a reasonable expectation that they will
2    be rehired by the same employer of the same service in a
3    subsequent calendar year; [.]
4        (4) a student enrolled in and regularly attending 
5    classes in a college or university, who is employed for 
6    less than an average of 30 hours per week by an employer, 
7    and who is not a participant in an adult education and 
8    literacy program at that college or university; or
9        (5) a student enrolled in and regularly attending high 
10    school classes, who is under 18 years of age, and who is 
11    employed on a temporary basis or less than full time.
12    "Employer" has the same application and meaning as that
13provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and
14Collection Act, except that for purposes of this Act,
15"employer" also means the State and units of local government,
16any political subdivision of the State or units of local
17government, or any State or local government agency.
18    "Employer" does not include school districts organized
19under the School Code or park districts organized under the
20Park District Code.
21    "Writing" or "written" means a printed or printable
22communication in physical or electronic format, including a
23communication that is transmitted through electronic mail,
24text message, or a computer system or is otherwise sent or
25stored electronically.
26(Source: P.A. 102-1143, eff. 1-1-24.)