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General Assembly passes bill requiring employers to offer paid leave

Southern Illinois state lawmakers are hosting a town hall Tuesday to discuss new laws including the polarizing Protect Illinois Communities Act. The law bans the transaction, sale and manufacturing of assault style rifles in the state, places a cap on magazine capacity for long guns and hand guns and requires current owners to register their rifles to state police by January 1, 2024.

(The Center Square) – A bill headed to the governor's desk that gives paid leave to all Illinois workers is being criticized for hurting small businesses around the state. The “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” guarantees...

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The Illinois General Assembly passed the “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” this week, guaranteeing workers can earn up to 40 hours of paid leave per year.

Illinois legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers PLFAW Act, making Illinois just the third state in the country after Maine and Nevada to require private employers to provide earned paid leave to employees to be used for any reason.

Jasper Water Works repairs scheduled for today have been postponed until Monday, 1/16/2023, beginning at 8:30 am Effingham - Illinois State Police Troop 9 Commander, Captain Nathan Douglas, announces the ISP will conduct Nighttime Enforcement (NITE) patrols in Effingham and Wayne County during February 2023. NITE patrols allow the ISP to focus on preventing, detecting, and taking enforcement action in response to impaired driving and occupant restraint violations especially between the hours of ...

Governor Pritzker has announced he will sign the legislation.

More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were being counted in the UAWs first direct election of top union leaders, a result of the corruption scandal.

Italy's Giorgia Meloni has hinted at a possible inquiry into the prior government's handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.