SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers are looking to phase out a system which allows certain employers to pay disabled persons far less than the statutory minimum wage that applies to…
Illinois is just a signature away from a $15-per-hour minimum wage. With state House passage of the proposal on Thursday and the measure already clearing the state Senate, the legislation…
Shirley Holden has been a tip worker in the food service industry for more than 20 years. All of her food service jobs — from casual and fine dining to hotels — have had one common…
Business owners and labor remain at odds over a proposed near doubling of the state’s minimum wage during the next five years. Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed Senate Bill 81, which…
Now that the Illinois Senate’s “Grand Bargain” bill bundle has fallen apart, some members of the House are running with individual pieces of the reform package. State Rep. Will…
An estimated 1.4 million Illinois workers are on the verge of a pay hike — a pay hike nearly nine years in the making. A proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage now…
Efforts to close the wage gap for female employees in Illinois will have to wait until at least January. The state Senate last week failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill…
Almost half the 136 towns in suburban Cook County chose to, or were likely to, opt out of the County’s minimum wage and employee sick leave ordinances before the July 1 deadline….
