IL HB4417

Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, public high schools and charter schools may annually designate and observe "Workplace Readiness Week" to provide students information on their worker rights.

Topics covered must include employee misclassification prohibitions, child labor laws, wage and hour protections, worker safety, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, paid leave, union organizing rights, and employer retaliation prohibitions at local, state, and federal levels.

Information must include the labor movement's role in winning worker protections and benefits described in the covered topic areas.

Students must receive information about State-approved apprenticeship programs, how to access them, and how they provide alternative career paths to traditional higher education.

For grades 11 and 12, the required information shall be integrated into the regular school program but may also be provided during special events after school hours.