There’s nothing like a looming deadline to prompt action. Back in August, Governor Rauner signed into law an amendment to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act that, for the first time, requires Illinois employers to reimburse employees for reasonable expenditures or losses required in the course of their employment duties and that primarily benefit the employer. Because the new law takes effect January 1, 2019, we’ve been receiving quite a few questions from employers about what they should be doing to comply. Right now, there is very little guidance on how the statute will be interpreted by the Illinois DOL or the courts, so anything we can say at the moment is provisional. With that caveat, here are a few preliminary “dos” and “don’t’s”:
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