Illinois Compiled Statutes
20 ILCS 1005/ - Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. (Department of Employment Security Law)
Article 1005 - Department Of Employment Security

(20 ILCS 1005/Art. 1005 heading)

 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-1)
Sec. 1005-1.
Article short title.
This Article 1005 of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the Department of Employment
Security Law.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-5)
Sec. 1005-5.
Definitions.
In this Law:
"Department" means the Department of Employment Security.
"Director" means the Director of Employment
Security.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-10) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a)
Sec. 1005-10.
Powers, generally.
The Department has the powers enumerated
in the following Sections.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-15) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.02)
Sec. 1005-15.
Employment opportunities.
The Department has the power to
advance opportunities for profitable employment.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-20) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.04)
Sec. 1005-20.

Statistical details of manufacturing industries and
commerce.
The Department has the power to collect, collate, assort,
systematize, and report
statistical details of the manufacturing industries and commerce of the State.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-25) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.05)
Sec. 1005-25.
Labor information.
The Department has the power
to acquire and diffuse useful information on subjects
connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-30) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.03)
Sec. 1005-30.
Statistical details relating to departments of labor.
The
Department has the power to collect, collate, assort,
systematize, and report statistical
details relating to all departments of labor, especially in its relation to
commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary conditions, and
to
the permanent prosperity of the manufacturing and productive industries.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-35) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.07)
Sec. 1005-35.
General conditions of leading industries.
The Department
has
the power to acquire information and report upon the general
conditions,
so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the State.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-40) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.08)
Sec. 1005-40.
Conditions of employment.
The Department has the power to
acquire and diffuse information as to the conditions of
employment and other facts that may be deemed of value
to the
industrial interests of the State.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-45) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.06)
Sec. 1005-45. Prosperity of laboring men and women.
(a) The Department has
the
power to acquire and diffuse among the people useful information
concerning the means of promoting the material, social, intellectual, and
moral prosperity of laboring men and women.
(b) The Department shall monitor the employment progress of women and
minorities in the work force, including access to the public sector,
the private sector, labor unions, and collective bargaining units.
This
information shall be provided to the General Assembly in the form of a biennial report no later than April 1 of each even-numbered year.

(Source: P.A. 99-652, eff. 1-1-17.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-47)
Sec. 1005-47. IllinoisJobLink.com.
(a) The Department of Employment Security, through its IllinoisJobLink.com System, or a successor system, shall maintain a web site that allows job seekers to search online for employment opportunities that match the skills of the person seeking employment.
(b) Each executive branch State agency and any individual or entity that is party to a contract with an executive branch State agency, except those individuals or entities that are party to a contract with a bona fide labor organization and perform construction or construction-related services as defined in Section 1-15.20 of the Illinois Procurement Code, must either (i) post employment vacancies on the Department's IllinoisJobLink.com System or its successor system or (ii) provide an online link to its employment vacancies so that this link is accessible through the web page of the IllinoisJobLink.com System or its successor system. "State agency" has the meaning as defined in Section 1-5 of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act and, for purposes of this Section, includes community colleges. "Contract" has the meaning given to that term in Section 1-15.30 of the Illinois Procurement Code. The Department of Central Management Services shall comply with this Section on behalf of executive branch State agencies with one or more positions subject to any jurisdiction of the Personnel Code.
This Section does not apply to positions exempt from the requirements of the Rutan decision or to construction-related services as defined in Section 1-15.20 of the Illinois Procurement Code.
(c) All units of local government, school districts, and other public and private employers not subject to subsection (b) may, and are encouraged to, post employment vacancies on the IllinoisJobLink.com System or successor system.
(d) The Department may not charge any employer or any person seeking employment a fee for using the IllinoisJobLink.com System or successor system.
(e) The Department is authorized to adopt all rules necessary to implement and administer the IllinoisJobLink.com System or any successor system under this Section.

(Source: P.A. 98-107, eff. 7-23-13.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-50) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.11)
Sec. 1005-50.
Welfare of wage earners.
The Department has the power to
foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-55)
Sec. 1005-55. Social security numbers; disclosure prohibited. Except as required under State or federal law, the Department shall not disclose an individual's entire social security number in any correspondence physically mailed to an individual or entity. The Department shall develop a process that allows for identifying information other than an individual's entire social security number to be used in correspondence. This Section does not apply to electronic data sharing pursuant to a written agreement containing appropriate security and confidentiality provisions or to an individual's or entity's access to information in the individual's or entity's secure account in the Department's databases.

(Source: P.A. 102-26, eff. 6-25-21.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-60)
Sec. 1005-60.
(Repealed).

(Source: P.A. 92-87, eff. 7-18-01. Repealed by P.A. 93-915, eff. 1-1-05.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-75) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.12)
Sec. 1005-75.
Jobs for summer employment of youth.
The Department has the
power to make available through its offices a listing of all jobs available in
each area for the
summer employment of youth.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-100) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.01)
Sec. 1005-100.
Public employment offices.
The Department
has the power to exercise the rights,
powers, and duties
vested by law in the general advisory board of public employment
offices,
local advisory boards of public employment offices, and other
officers and
employees of public employment offices.

(Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-105) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.09)
Sec. 1005-105.
Administration of Unemployment Insurance Act.
The Department has the power to administer the provisions of the
Unemployment
Insurance Act
insofar as those
provisions relate to the powers and duties of the Director.

(Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-110) (was 20 ILCS 1005/44a)
Sec. 1005-110.
Board of Review.
The Board of Review in the Department
shall exercise all powers and be subject to all duties conferred or imposed
upon the Board by the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act, in its
own name and without any direction, supervision, or control by the Director.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-16, eff.
6-28-01.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-115) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.10)
Sec. 1005-115.

Transfer of lands to other State agency; acquisition of
federal lands. The Department has the power to transfer
jurisdiction of any realty under the control of
the Department to any other department of the State government or to
acquire or accept federal lands when the transfer,
acquisition, or
acceptance is advantageous to the State and is approved in writing by the
Governor.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-120) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.13)
Sec. 1005-120.
Contracts for payment of compensation to Department.
The
Department has the power to enter into contracts that may
provide for payment of
negotiated royalties, licensing fees, or other compensation to the
Department.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-130) (was 20 ILCS 1005/43a.14)
Sec. 1005-130. Exchange of information for child support
enforcement.
(a) The Department has the power to exchange with the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services

information that may be necessary for the enforcement of child support
orders entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage
and
Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the
Non-Support Punishment Act, the
Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, or the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015.
(b) Notwithstanding any provisions in the Civil Administrative
Code of Illinois to the contrary, the
Department of Employment Security shall not be liable
to any person for any disclosure of information to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
Illinois Department of Public Aid) under subsection (a)
or for any other action taken in good faith to comply with the requirements of
subsection (a).

(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-150) (was 20 ILCS 5/34.2)
Sec. 1005-150.

Transfer from Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment
Security. The Department of Employment Security shall
assume all rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of
the Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security
as the successor to that Bureau. The Bureau of Employment Security in the
Department of Labor is hereby abolished.
Personnel, books, records, papers, documents, property, real and
personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way
pertaining to the former Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security
are transferred to the Department of Employment Security, but any rights of
employees or the State under the Personnel Code or any other contract
or
plan shall be unaffected by this transfer. No rule or regulation
promulgated by the
Department of Labor pursuant to an exercise of any right, power, duty, or
responsibility transferred to the Department of Employment Security shall
be affected by this amendatory Act of 1984, and all those rules
and
regulations shall become the rules and regulations
of the Department of Employment Security.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-155)
Sec. 1005-155. Illinois worknet Centers report. The
Department
of Employment Security, or the State agency responsible for the oversight of
the
federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act if that agency is not the Department
of
Employment Security, shall prepare a report for the Governor and the
General Assembly regarding the progress of the Illinois Employment and
Training Centers in serving individuals with disabilities. The report must
include,
but is not limited to, the following: (i) the number of individuals referred to
the
Illinois Employment and Training Centers by the Department of Human Services
Office of Rehabilitation Services; (ii) the total number of individuals with disabilities
served by the Illinois Employment and Training Centers; (iii) the number of
individuals with disabilities served in federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act
employment and training
programs; (iv) the number of individuals with disabilities annually placed in
jobs
by the Illinois Employment and Training Centers; and (v) the number of
individuals with disabilities referred by the Illinois Employment and Training
Centers to the Department of Human Services Office of Rehabilitation Services.
The report is due
by December 31, 2004 based on the previous State program year
of July 1
through June 30,
and is due annually thereafter. "Individuals with disabilities" are defined as
those who
self-report as being qualified as disabled under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act or
the
1990 Americans
with Disabilities Act, for the purposes of this Law.


(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 100-477, eff. 9-8-17.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-160)
Sec. 1005-160. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors. The Department of Labor, the Department of Employment Security, the Department of Revenue, the Office of the State Comptroller, and the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission shall cooperate under the Employee Classification Act by sharing information concerning any suspected misclassification by an employer or entity, as defined in the Employee Classification Act, of one or more employees as independent contractors.

(Source: P.A. 95-26, eff. 1-1-08.)
 
(20 ILCS 1005/1005-165)
Sec. 1005-165. Disabled veterans outreach. The Department shall employ such disabled veterans outreach program specialists as appropriate and efficient according to Section 4103A of Title 38 of the United States Code, or any successor legislation, based upon available federal funding for that purpose.

(Source: P.A. 98-107, eff. 7-23-13.)