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Illinois Dept. of Labor reminds employers of child labor laws as school lets out
WMBD - FOX 43 Peoria· 6 days agoSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — School is out and teenagers are beginning to join the summer workforce....
Deere to pay $1M in discrimination case
KWQC-TV 6 Davenport· 5 days agoIt comes after the U.S. Department of Labor evaluated the ag manufacturer’s hiring practices in Waterloo and Ankeny, Iowa, and Milan, ...
Illinois Legislature Again Amends the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act | JD Supra
JD Supra· 5 days agoGovernor J.B. Pritzker is expected to sign the legislation into law and the amendments will become effective on the date of his signature. Governor Pritzker is expected to ...
Chinese battery manufacturer planning to open Illinois plant accused of using forced labor
NBC Chicago· 6 days agolabor and that it is connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to a letter signed by...
Owner of O’Fallon, Alton restaurants kept servers’ tips, didn’t pay full wages, feds say
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPaying some employees “straight time” for hours over 40 in a workweek, when overtime was required....
Former Gov. James R. Thompson remembered as ‘titan’ in state government
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoThompson later appointed him director of the Illinois Department of Transportation. “He was a...
Scientists have found a use for cocoa pod scraps. It could change the future of chocolate
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn 2018, the Rainforest Alliance...approximately 1.56 million children are working on cocoa farms,...
Illinois lawmakers call for more details on plan to replace prisons
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 2 days agoForecasting and Accountability, or COGFA, was scheduled to take an advisory vote on the plan Friday,...
Texas officials preparing for influx in worker complaints
Newsweek· 2 days agoOfficials within the Texas Department of Labor are expecting worker complaints to rise during the...
America's way of measuring poverty is stuck in the 1960s. Here's how we can fix it.
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people spent 33.3% of their income on housing last...
