The New Year will usher in several new Illinois employment laws. These laws cover a myriad of topics and will require revisions to employee handbooks and general employment policies.
Illinois Senate Bill 3120, effective January 1, 2023, expands the protections afforded under the Child Bereavement Leave Act (the "CBLA"), 820 ILCS 154/ et seq.1 Under the existing CBLA, Illinois employees are entitled to use a maximum of two weeks (10 work days) of unpaid bereavement leave for the following reasons: to attend the funeral or alternative to a funeral of a child; make arrangements necessitated by the death of a child; or grieve the death of a child. The CBLA defines "child" as employee's son or daughter who is a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis.
The amended CBLA, now titled the Family Bereavement Leave Act ("FBLA"), broadens the scope of the CBLA by expanding the availability of unpaid bereavement leave to cover additional family members and reasons for leave. The FBLA provides for bereavement leave for the death of a "covered family member," which now includes an employee's child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or step-parent.
The FBLA also provides that employees are entitled to this leave due to (i) a miscarriage; (ii) an unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or of an assisted reproductive technology procedure...
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