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2025 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 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 8,382.7 $ 2,021.9 $ 3,467.9 $ 2,178.7 $ 2,009.6
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 8,382.7 $ 2,021.9 $ 3,467.9 $ 2,178.7 $ 2,009.6
Average monthly full-time equivalents 24.0 20.0 25.0 21.0 26.0
Output Indicators
Number of complaints opened under the Child Labor Law 61.0 56.0 42.0 44.0 24.0
Number of complaints opened under the Wage Payment and Collection Act 6,000 6,022 7,000 5,926 4,670
Number of Child Labor Employment Certificates received 15,000 14,962 17,000 16,986 19,443
Number of complaints opened under Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) 1,140 1,071 1,000 1,011 870.0
Number of complaints opened under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 227.0 208.0 150.0 152.0 106.0
Outcome Indicators
Dollar amount collected in back wages under the Wage Payment and Collection Act (in dollars) $ 2,570,000.00 $ 2,567,200.00 $ 2,440,000.00 $ 2,439,300.00 $ 2,273,600.00
Dollar amount collected in wages under the Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) (in dollars) $ 109,000.00 $ 109,400.00 $ 180,000.00 $ 182,600.00 $ 191,600.00
Number of cases completed under the Wage Payment and Collection Act 4,800 4,376 2,400 2,568 2,257
Number of cases completed under Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (MWOT) 375.0 365.0 937.0 892.0 796.0
Number of cases completed under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 60.0 57.0 155.0 143.0 76.0
Number of permits issued under One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) 2,175 2,167 2,000 1,922 1,520
Number of licenses issued under the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act 500.0 498.0 500.0 518.0 389.0
Number of licenses issued under the Private Employment Agency Act 80.0 85.0 105.0 98.0 115.0
Number of verified Child Labor violations abated 0.0 0.0 20.0 70.0 17.0
Number of children involved in an abated Child Labor violation 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 4.0
Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
Average number of days to complete a Wage Claim case 340.0 350.0 350.0 371.0 322.0

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