Gov. JB Pritzker issued a rare veto Friday of a bill that would require warehouse workers in Illinois to know quotas they must meet at their jobs.
While signing 16 other bills into law that the General Assembly passed during the January “lame duck” session, Pritzker rejected House Bill 2547 .Lawmakers passed the measure in hopes of providing workers at Illinois warehouse more transparency about requirements of their job.
“While I share the goal of protecting warehouse workers from dangerous and unfair working conditions, this bill was passed hastily at the end of the Lame Duck session without engagement with relevant state agencies or my office and presents both legal and operational issues that undermine its effect,” Pritzker said in a letter to lawmakers …