{"data":{"id":"us-il/820-ilcs-5-1.3","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"820 ILCS 5/1.3","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in Section 1.2 through 1.5:\n\"Employee\" means any individual permitted to work by an employer in an occupation. For the purpose of Sections 1.2 through 1.5, \"employee\" includes any transportation network driver, as that term is defined in the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act.\n\"Employer\" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, governmental or quasi-governmental body, or any person or group of persons that employs any person to work, labor, or exercise skill in connection with the operation of any business, industry, vocation, or occupation. For the purpose of Sections 1.2 through 1.5, \"employer\" includes any transportation network company, as defined in the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act, with respect to its engagement or contracting of transportation network drivers. With respect to transportation network drivers and transportation network companies, \"employment\" includes the engagement or contracting of a transportation network driver by a transportation network company to provide transportation network company services, as those terms are defined in the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act.\n\"Picketing\" means the stationing of a person for an organization to apprise the public by signs or other means of the existence of a dispute pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq., the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 141 et seq., and the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act.\n\"Dispute\" includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment or other protest, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relationship of employer and employee.\n\"Public right of way\" means that portion of the highway or street adjacent to the roadway for accommodating stopped vehicles or for emergency use; or that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines.\n\"Temporary sign\" means a sign or other display or device that is not permanently affixed and is capable of being removed at the end of each day or shift.\n\"Temporary shelter\" means a tent or shelter that is not permanently affixed and is capable of being removed at the end of each day or shift, not to exceed 300 square feet in size.","path":["CHAPTER 820 EMPLOYMENT","Labor Dispute Act."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=2387\u0026ChapterID=68\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:48Z","sha256":"6958ea4182903b73958e444fc2e67d8fef299b1e0dfc6d2ddfb3413037e5a7b4","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/820-ilcs-5-1.2","next":"us-il/820-ilcs-5-1.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}