Illinois Wage Payment Act Applies to Ohio Resident -IL 2d Dist.

Elsener v. Brown, 2013 IL App (2d) 120209 (Sept. 2013) examines when personal liability will attach to a corporate officer under Section 13 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, 820 ILCS 115/1 et seq. (the “Wage Act”) where that corporate officer lives out-of-state. Facts: After plaintiff sold the business journal he founded to an Ohio corporation, plaintiff signed a three-year …