RESPONSIBLE JOB CREATION ACT ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR ALL WORK ERS Temp and contractor jobs account for 100% of job growth over the past decade. 1 According to the American Staffing Association, temp staffing firms employed 842,109 Illinois residents in 2015. 2 Unfortunately, these jobs are increasingly replacing traditional full-time, direct hire work. Studies show that 63% of warehouse workers3 and 24% of manufacturing workers4 in Illinois are employed by temp staffing firms. Temp workers often earn substantially less than full-time employees performing the same work. 5 They are more likely to suffer workplace injuries 6, wage theft7, and illegal retaliation for reporting workplace injuries. 7 The Responsible Job Creation Act aims to correct these abuses. CLOSES THE ENFORCEMENT GAP » Requires staffing firms to track race, ethnicity and gender of job applicants » Requires staffing firms to secure a $150,000 surety bond to protect against wage theft or other damages. » Increases fines against staffing firms for failure to register with the IL Dept. of Labor (IDOL) » Provides a 90-day rebuttable presumption for an employee’s termination. A min. penalty of $10,000 will be issued to an employer for retaliating against an employee for exercising their rights. » Provides for a $50 minimum for violation of health and safety provisions. Provides $50/day in damages when a worker is prevented by the staffing firm from taking a direct-hire position. SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF STABLE, PERMANENT LIVING -WAGE JOBS » Requires staffing firms to provide notice of schedule and 48 hours’ notice of any schedule changes. » Requires that staffing firms provide transportation to and from a job site. » Prohibits staffing firms from charging employees for drug testing and background checks. » Requires staffing firms to report annually to the IDOL - the number of workers placed in permanent positions in the last year and the number of covered workers employed by the staffing firm. » Requires that temporary employees have equal pay and benefits as direct hire employees at the same location for the same work. PROTECTS THE LIVES OF THE STATE ’S MOST VULNERABLE WORKERS » Requires that client companies conduct a job hazard analysis for each job. Includes the safety process, equipment and training that may be required and a review of potential hazards. » Requires that temporary workers have a documented, mandatory safety training to execute the job. » Assures workers that they will not be retaliated against for reporting workplace injuries. PROPONENTS: Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, Illinois AFL-CIO, Latino Policy Forum, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, National Employment Law Project, Rainbow Push Coalition, Raise the Floor Alliance, Warehouse Workers for Justice Katz, Lawrence and Krueger, Alan, The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States 2005-2015. (2016) AMERICAN STAFFING ASSOCIATION, ILLINOIS FACT SHEET (2015), 3 Warehouse Workers for Justice, Bad Jobs in Goods Movement. (2010) 4Peck, Jaime and Theodore, Nik Flexible recession: the temporary staffing industry and mediated work in the United States (2007) 5Bad Jobs in Goods Movement, supra note 3 6 Grabell, M., et al., Temporary Work, Lasting Harm, PROPUBLICA, Dec. 18, 2013 7 RAISE THE FLOOR ALLIANCE & NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE DENIED DIGNITY AT WORK IN ILLINOIS: AN INITIAL REPORT OF FINDINGS 1 2