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April 14, 2025
Proposed mandate opposed by NFIB failed to advance in the Illinois House
Right-to-sit-in-the-workplace legislation failed to advance in the Illinois House prior to the House’s third-reading deadline.
The legislation, HB 3249 (Jimenez), would have created the Right to Sit at Work Act.
The bill would have required employers to provide seats to employees when the employees’ “work reasonably allows for seated work.”
Newly designed work spaces would have had to provide employee seating “if the work space could reasonably be designed to allow seated work.”
The proposal would also have permitted employees to sue their employers if the employees believed their rights had been violated under the proposed law.
The bill passed out of the House Labor & Commerce Committee on March 19 on a partisan vote, but did not garner sufficient support to pass the Illinois House. It was re-referred back to the House Rules Committee on April 11.
NFIB opposed the bill in committee and on the floor of the House.
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