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The Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act aims to prevent ‘permatemping,’ where an employer keeps a temp worker indefinitely, by requiring that employers pay temps similar wages as direct hires after 90 days on the job.
(The Center Square) – Legislation significantly increasing the rights and pay for temporary workers in Illinois is now law. Business groups say the law will have negative consequences. Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed...
(The Center Square) – Legislation significantly increasing regulations on Illinois businesses who use temporary workers, including mandating pay rates, is now law. Business groups say the law will have negative
Illinois regulations requiring staffing firms to provide equal pay and benefits to temporary workers was signed into law.
For the last two decades, Brisa Chavez, of Cicero, Illinois, has found work through staffing agencies. Like many immigrants, the single mother has been able to find work through temp agencies because they require less paperwork and less schooling than being hired by a company directly, she said. “Unfortunately, we are also more at risk of suffering abuse in the workplace,” she said. Chavez ...