Faulty Service on LLC Defendant Dooms Administrative Agency’s Unpaid Wages Claim Versus Security Company

The Illinois Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to send a notice of hearing to a limited liability company and its sole member to the member’s personal post office (p.o.) box (and not to the LLC’s registered agent) came back to haunt the agency in People of the State of Illinois v. Wilson, 2018 IL App …

Cab Passenger Fares Aren’t “Wages” Under IL Wage Payment and Collection Act – 7th Circuit

The salient question considered by the Seventh Circuit in Enger v. Chicago Carriage Cab Corp., 2016 WL 106878 (7th Cir. 2016) was whether “wages” under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, 820 ILCS 115/1 et seq. (the “Act”) encompasses “indirect wages” – monies paid an employee by third parties (i.e. as opposed to money paid …

Illinois Sales Representative Act Doesn’t Apply to Construction Repair “Services” – IL 1st Dist

  The Illinois Sales Representative Act, 820 ILCS 120/1 (the “ISRA”) provides a cause of action for independent sales representatives who are owed sales commissions.  By covering independent contractors (as opposed to employees), the ISRA serves as a powerful gap filler to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, which applies specifically to employees owed wages by …