To comply with the latest iteration of the Illinois Equal Pay Act (IEPA), employers with at least 100 employees in the state of Illinois are required to submit an application to obtain an equal pay registration certificate from the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) between March 24, 2022, and March 23, 2024. The IDOL will assign each business an application date within that period. (This reporting and compliance requirement appears in SB 1847, legislation that Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law on June 25, 2021, to further amend the IEPA (which was previously amended in March 2021).)
It is unclear how IDOL will assign these dates, but when an employer receives its notice, it will have no less than 120 days to comply. Previously, the IEPA granted employers a three-year “ramp up” period to comply with the statute, requiring employers to submit their applications no later than March 24, 2024. The June 2021 amendments clarify that the IDOL’s failure to assign a submission deadline does not absolve the employer from the IEPA’s reporting requirements, though it “may be a mitigating factor when making a determination of the violation.”
To obtain a certificate of compliance, employers must submit the following materials with their application:
A list of employees with the following information for each employee:
Race,
Ethnicity,
Gender,
Total wages paid during previous calendar year,
County in which...
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