Employment Law Now VI-113 - Panel Discussion on Significant Equal Pay Legislation
When it comes to pay equity, Illinois has some of the most stringent laws in the United States. Along with California, it is the only state to require pay data reporting. As the Illinois Equal Pay Certificate Deadline of...more
Illinois recently amended its Equal Pay Act to require employers with 15 or more workers to include pay and benefits information for each covered job posting. There is, however, a delayed start date: This amendment will take...more
Since Gov. J. B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1480 (the Act) on March 23, 2021, the standards for employers have been raised for both hiring and employment practices. The Act incorporated significant changes to the Illinois...more
The Illinois Equal Pay Act has been around for a decade, but it’s seen many changes in the past few years. The act was amended in 2021 to impose new equal pay compliance requirements and create new obligations for private...more
The new requirements for employers to comply with the Illinois Equal Pay Act (the “Act”) Amendments took effect last month. As previously discussed, between March 24, 2022 and March 23, 2024, employers with 100 or more...more
On March 24, 2022, a new pay data reporting requirement will take effect for certain private employers in Illinois. Detailed discussions of this requirement and other aspects of the recent amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay...more
Last year Illinois enacted amendments to its own Equal Pay Act, which requires unprecedented reporting of race, gender, and ethnicity statistics along with pay data of Illinois based employees. This reporting requirement is...more
After a relatively quiet 2020 from an employment legislation perspective, the Illinois Assembly has been busy crafting new laws in 2021. We recently reported on new legislation related to restrictive covenants, but the...more
Many states across the country have adopted new or revised equal pay laws in an effort to address pay inequities in the workplace. Illinois joined that list with March 22, 2021 amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003...more