Beginning January 1, 2013, officers and agents of Illinois companies may be held individually liable for wages lost due to violations of the state’s Equal Pay Act, which requires employees who do the same or similar work to receive the same pay.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that women earn 78 cents for every dollar earned by men in Illinois. Since the state’s equal pay law took effect in 2004, the IDOL has received more than 600 complaints and recovered more than half a million dollars in back pay for women who were paid less than men for the same work.