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On April 21, 2021, Chicago became the latest locale to require employers that mandate COVID-19 vaccinations to compensate certain employees for time spent getting vaccinated. While the new ordinance does not go as far as legislation in other parts of the country, it does create new obligations for employers, whether vaccinations are mandated or merely encouraged.
Mandated Vaccines
Under the new ordinance, employers that require their Chicago employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine must compensate those employees at their regular rates of pay, up to four hours per dose,
if the vaccination takes place during an employee s regular working hours. Employers also are prohibited from requiring employees to receive vaccinations outside working hours, or requiring employees to use any available paid sick leave or vacation time toward those hours.
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For Immediate Release – April 28, 2021
Illinois Department of Labor Joins OSHA in Promoting Campaign to Prevent Falls at Construction Worksites
SPRINGFIELD – The leading cause of death for construction workers is falls, accounting for more than 400 deaths in 2019, according to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Sadly, those deaths were preventable.
Bringing awareness to help prevent construction industry deaths and injuries from falls is the goal of the National Safety Stand Down to Prevent Falls in Construction week, May 3-7.
The Illinois Department of Labor and its Illinois OSHA division are helping to promote the safety week.
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On April 21, 2021, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance, effective immediately,
prohibiting adverse action against all Chicago
workers including independent contractors who take time
off from work to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The ordinance also
prohibits employers from requiring that a worker get a COVID-19
vaccine outside of work hours.
Vaccination time off need not necessarily be paid. Employers
that do not require vaccination must provide unpaid vaccination
time off and must permit (but not mandate) a worker to use accrued
or otherwise available paid sick leave or paid time off to cover
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The project will include the rehabilitation and repainting of the village s 300,000-gallon sphere water tower on Nelson Road, board documents state. (Shutterstock)
NEW LENOX, IL A New Lenox water tower will be getting a new coat of paint, after the village board awarded a bid to Era Valdivia Contractors, Inc., for the project at its April 12 meeting.
Public Works Director Brian Williams said the village received four bids for the project, ranging from $397,000 to $504,000.
Era Valdivia Contractors, Inc., was the third-lowest bidder at $466,800.
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Williams said the lowest bidder was from out-of-state, and is a non-union contractor who has open investigations with the Illinois Department of Labor. The second-lowest bidder was in-state and a union contractor, but the company stated in the bid that they couldn t do the project until 2022, Williams said.