Written by Delgado Staff Thursday, 04 March 2010 08:22
"Currently, if mistreated employees cannot establish that the behavior was motivated by race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or age, they are unlikely to be protected by the law against such mistreatment," said Senator Delgado, Chairman of the Illinois Senate Public Health Committee. "This legislation will put in place those needed protections." Senate Bill 3566 creates the Abusive Work Environment Act to provide legal relief for employees who have been harmed, psychologically, physically, or economically, by being deliberately subjected to abusive work environments. This bill also provides legal incentive for employers to prevent and respond to abusive mistreatment of employees at work. In addition, this legislation will make it a crime to retaliate in any manner against an employee who makes a claim under this Act. Also, both employers and individual employees may be liable under this Act. "Being in an abusive work environment is intolerable," Senator Delgado said. "This legislation will finally give workers some means of relief from the abuse they may be tolerating in their work environment."
SPRINGFIELD, IL—Illinois State Senator William Delgado (D-Chicago) is sponsoring legislation that will allow mistreated employees rights to sue either their employer or another employee because they have been subjected to an abusive environment.
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2nd District
Years served: 1999 - 2006 (House); 2006 - Present (Senate)
Committee assignments: Human Services; Appropriations I; Public Health (Chairperson); Consumer Protection (Vice-Chairperson); Executive Appointments; Committee of the Whole; Joint Comm. on Government Reform; Subcommittee on Amendments.
Biography: Full-time state legislator; born in Newark, NJ.; B.A. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University; Leadership Chairman of the 2nd Legislative District's Volunteer Political Organization; married (wife, Iris), has two children.
