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2024 Fair Labor Standards
Mission Statement To promote and protect the rights, wages, welfare, safety and health of Illinois workers through enforcement of state labor laws and timely resolution of labor disputes.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Protect the rights and welfare of workers through various labor laws
    1. Conducts fact-based investigations in response to complaints
    2. Negotiates settlements in back wage cases
    3. Collects penalties for labor law violations
    4. Refers cases to hearing under an Administrative Law Judge
  2. Promote high standards among Private Employment and Day Labor Agencies
    1. Licenses private employment, day labor, and nurse agencies
  3. Protect children through enforcement of Child Labor Law
    1. Conducts fact-based investigations in response to complaints
    2. Collects penalties for labor law violations
  4. To ensure that all Illinois citizens are paid appropriately and in full for hours worked
    1. Conducts fact-based investigations into wage claims
    2. Secures settlements between employers and employees
    3. Refers cases to hearings under Administrative Law Judges
Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Child Labor and Day and Temporary Labor Services Enforcement Fund, Wage Theft Enforcement Fund Statutory Authority Multiple
Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2024 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2023 Actual Fiscal Year 2022 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 3,467.9 $ 2,178.7 $ 3,072.9 $ 2,009.6 $ 1,668.6
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 3,467.9 $ 2,178.7 $ 3,072.9 $ 2,009.6 $ 1,668.5
Average monthly full-time equivalents 25.0 21.0 34.0 26.0 20.0
Output Indicators
Number of complaints opened under the Child Labor Law 42.0 44.0 20.0 24.0 11.0
Number of complaints opened under the Wage Payment and Collection Act 7,000 5,926 4,500 4,670 3,473
Number of Child Labor Employment Certificates received 17,000 16,986 21,000 19,443 20,278
Number of complaints opened under Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) 1,000 1,011 875.0 870.0 685.0
Number of complaints opened under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 150.0 152.0 100.0 106.0 52.0
Outcome Indicators
Dollar amount collected in back wages under the Wage Payment and Collection Act (in dollars) $ 2,440,000.00 $ 2,439,300.00 $ 2,500,000.00 $ 2,273,600.00 $ 2,380,900.00
Dollar amount collected in wages under the Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) (in dollars) $ 180,000.00 $ 182,600.00 $ 210,000.00 $ 191,600.00 $ 300,560.00
Number of cases completed under the Wage Payment and Collection Act 2,400 2,568 2,450 2,257 2,687
Number of cases completed under Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) 937.0 892.0 820.0 796.0 609.0
Number of cases completed under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 155.0 143.0 80.0 76.0 107.0
Number of permits issued under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 2,000 1,922 1,500 1,520 1,327
Number of licenses issued under the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act 500.0 518.0 400.0 389.0 363.0
Number of licenses issued under the Private Employment Agency Act 105.0 98.0 125.0 115.0 129.0
Number of verified Child Labor violations abated (a) 20.0 70.0 16.0 17.0 28.0
Number of children involved in an abated Child Labor violation 0.0 2.0 5.0 4.0 28.0
Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
Average number of days to complete a Wage Claim case 350.0 371.0 300.0 322.0 120.0
Footnotes
The increase in Child Labor violations abated follows a trend we are seeing in Illinois and nationwide. Employers are utilizing minors in their workforce.

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