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<section number="13A-120" name="Transition employment period" law="code" slug="sec-13a-120" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_13ALACO_DIV4DISEEMPRAC_S13A-120TREMPE">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Awarding authority. At least 15 days before a service contract is terminated, an awarding authority must:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>request the terminated contractor to give the successor entity and the awarding authority a complete list of the name, date of hire, and job classification of each displaced service employee working on the service contract;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>give the successor entity a complete list of the name, date of hire, and job classification of each displaced service employee of the terminated contractor working on the service contract;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>ensure that a written notice to all affected displaced service employees describing the pending termination of the service contract and the employee rights provided by this Article is conspicuously posted at any affected work site, except in the case of a service contract at a facility used as a public university, in which case the terminated contractor shall comply with subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Successor Entity.</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to subsection (b)(3) below, each successor entity must retain each affected displaced service employee at an affected site for 90 days or until the successor entity no longer provides services at the covered location, whichever is earlier.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each successor entity must give each affected displaced service employee a written offer of employment and send a copy to the displaced service employee's collective bargaining representative, if any. Each offer must:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>state the date by which the displaced service employee must accept the offer; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>allow the displaced service employee at least 10 days after receiving the notice to accept the offer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Each successor entity may retain less than all of the affected displaced service employees during the 90-day transition period if the successor entity:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>finds that fewer displaced service employees are required to perform the work than the terminated contractor had employed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>maintains a preferential hiring list of those displaced service employees not retained; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>hires any additional displaced service employees from the list until all affected displaced service employees have been offered employment;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The successor entity shall not discharge a displaced service employee retained under this Section without just cause during the transition period.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The successor entity shall not engage in discrimination as defined by Section 2-186(a)(3) in the replacement or failure to retain a displaced service employee eligible to be retained under this Section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Notice.</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 90 days before a service contract is terminated, the terminated contractor must provide notice to the displaced service employee through a signed letter in English and in Spanish explaining that a new contractor will start work in 90 days and that they will no longer have employment with terminated service contractor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
