CHICAGO– Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) are urging the Illinois Appellate Court to overturn a circuit court’s order barring employees of a Chicago manufacturing company from recovering overtime wages and penalty fees they argue should have been paid. Raoul, along with the IDOL, filed an amicus brief in Mercado v. S&C Electric Company (S&C) to ensure that the Illinois Minimum Wage Law protects employees’ right to earn fair compensation for overtime hours worked, as well as their right to recover lost wages and penalties in court.
“Employees have a right to be fairly compensated for all the hours they work. In the event that their employer violates Illinois’ Minimum Wage Law, employees also have a right to recover penalties, in addition to lost overtime wages,” Raoul said. “I am committed to protecting Illinois workers and ensuring that employers that violate the law are accountable to their employees.”
“The Illinois Department of Labor is committed to protecting the rights of workers in Illinois to overtime pay and their ability to enforce that right,” said IDOL Acting Director Jane Flanagan.
The lawsuit was filed by hourly factory assembly workers who state that S&C, a Chicago manufacturing company, pays workers in part by offering bonus payments tied to metrics, such as the quality and quantity of their work, in addition to hourly wages. In the lawsuit, the employees allege S&C did not include the bonus payments...
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