Under a new amendment to the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act, Illinois employers and staffing agencies will be required to provide temporary workers pay and benefits equal to certain directly-hired employees after 90 days of employment. The new legislation also requires employers and staffing agencies to notify temporary workers of strikes, lockouts, and “labor trouble;” and to provide general and site-specific safety training to temporary workers before they begin working at a job site. These requirements apply to day and temporary laborers in all roles other than those of a “clerical or professional” nature. The amendment has been approved by both houses of the Illinois General Assembly and will take effect upon signature by Governor Pritzker.
Equal Pay and Benefits
The law provides that a temporary worker assigned to a client by a temporary staffing agency for more than 90 calendar days must be paid “not less than the rate of pay and equivalent benefits as the lowest paid directly hired employee of the third party client with the same level of seniority at the company and performing the same or substantially similar work on jobs the performance of which requires substantially similar skill, effort, and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions.” If there is no directly hired comparative employee, the temporary worker must receive at least the rate of pay and equivalent benefits as the “lowest paid direct hired employee of the...
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