Illinois Places Significant Restrictions on Employers Use of Criminal Conviction History and Imposes EEO Reporting Requirement | Epstein Becker & Green
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Newly enacted Illinois laws immediately prohibit employers from using criminal convictions in hiring except in specific situations. Beginning in 2023, the new laws also will require large employers to submit EEO-1 data with their corporate annual reports, and in 2024 will require them to file wage disclosures and compliance certificates with the Illinois Department of Labor. Some of the broadest protections for whistleblowers in the country became effective March 23.
Restrictions on Employer’s Use of Criminal Convictions
The Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA) was amended, effective immediately, to bolster prior “Ban the Box” laws by prohibiting the use of criminal convictions by Illinois employers except in special circumstances and only if special notices (similar to those required by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act) are provided to applicants and employees.