Takeaways

• All Illinois employers are required to provide jury duty leave. Starting 01.01.27, Illinois employers with at least 26 employees must provide employees with paid leave for jury service.
• Also starting 01.01.27, employers cannot penalize volunteer emergency workers who are absent from or late to work because they were responding to emergencies or participating in required training.
• Employees cannot be required to use accrued paid time off while serving jury duty or participating in volunteer emergency services activities.

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Illinois has enacted two laws that expand employee protections beginning Jan. 1, 2027. Gov. JB Pritzker signed an amendment to both the state’s Jury Act and Jury Commission Act to provide employees with paid leave for jury service (HB 4844; Public Act 104-0683). He also signed an amendment to the Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act to provide additional employment protections for employees when responding to emergencies or attending training required for service as a volunteer emergency worker (HB1353; Public Act 104-0581).

Paid Leave for Jury Service

The Illinois Jury Act and Jury Commission Act require all Illinois employers, regardless of size, to provide eligible employees with job-protected leave for jury service. Eligible employees are those who have not been disqualified from sitting on juries and have been duly summoned for jury duty in any Illinois court. The acts also prohibit all Illinois employers...

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