Executive Summary: For this entire 2023-2024 Illinois legislative term, we have been closely watching dozens of proposed employment bills make their way through the Illinois Legislature. In the weeks of May 8 and 15, 2023, seven of these bills passed both houses and await Governor J.B. Pritzker’s signature, which we have no doubt will occur. There is also a possible Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) reform bill in the works, though very watered down compared to the versions proposed by several Republican legislators. We will first focus on the bills that have passed both houses. We have prepared a separate legal alert regarding HB1363, which makes significant changes to the Illinois Gender Violence Act, which can be accessed here.
Amendments to Equal Pay Act: HB3733
EEO-1 Reports No Longer Allowed for Equal Pay Act Registration Certification
If HB3733 is enacted, employers who are required to seek equal pay registration certificates (i.e. employers with 100 or more employees in Illinois) will be required to submit a list of all employees during the past calendar year, separated by gender, race, and ethnicity as reported in the employer’s most recently filed EEO-1 report, along with other required formation (such as county where the employee works, dates of employment, etc.). Employers will no longer be able to choose between providing that list or simply producing their most recently filed EEO-1 reports. Thus, employers will want to immediately take steps to compile...
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