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…
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….
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…
SPRINGFIELD — The state’s minimum wage will increase by $1 hourly, recreational marijuana will go on sale to those over 21 years of age, and some state taxes and licensing fees…
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…
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