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Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois workers who are missing money from their employers now have a new way to check on the status of lost wages. Workers can now search the state treasurer’s I-Cash website ...
In the other 46 states, labor commissioners are nonpartisan and appointed. In Nevada and West Virginia, two separate appointed offices divide the responsibilities of the labor commissioner, while in Texas, there are three labor commissioners on the Texas Workforce Commission. [1]
The Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) is codified in chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code although it is commonly still referred to as the TCHRA. The TCHRA/chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code empowers the TWC similar to the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) with analogous responsibilities at the state level.
Before January 1, 2021, the Illinois Freedom to Work Act prohibited employers from entering into a covenant not to compete with Illinois employees earning the greater of (1) the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by the applicable federal, State, or local minimum wage law or (2) $13.00 per hour. [32] [33]
(The Center Square) – Illinois’ minimum wage is set to go up to $15 an hour beginning Jan. 1. Tipped wages will go to $9 an hour. Some want that to be abolished and for tipped workers to get ...
“I can estimate that 98% or 99% of the employees that qualify under the wage-theft claim, their claims are less than $15,000,” Bonakdar told The Fresno Bee on Wednesday.
Minimum wage is enforced by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD). WHD is generally contacted by 25,000 people a year in regards to concerns and violations of minimum wage pay. [7] [9] A common form of wage theft for tipped employees is to receive no standard pay ($2.13 an hour) along with tips. [8]
Additional groups with "protected status" were added by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. There is no federal law banning all sexual orientation or identity discrimination, but 22 states had passed laws by 2016. These equality laws generally prevent discrimination in hiring and ...