Illinois Labor Law Posters

October 4th, 2006 Posted by Mark

Our quest to uncover the truths and the important details about labor law posters continues, this time with our focus on Illinois Labor Law Posters. We’ve covered California and Oregon on the West Coast, and New York and Connecticut on the East Coast, so it’s about time that we branch out and look at some of the Mid-America states again.

The Illinois Labor Law Posters contain the usual mix of state based and federal based posters, and we’ve looked at that mix in detail in previous blog entries, so I will not repeat myself here (and bore you there). Instead, my plan—as it’s been with other states’ labor law and employment posters lately—is to get “knee-deep,” as I like to say, in one of the posters in the Illinois Labor Law Posters.

That poster in the Illinois Labor Law Posters will be today the equal pay for equal work posting, which basically covers the issues of sex-based discrimination at the work site, or gender-based discrimination in other words.

The equal pay for equal work posting in the Illinois Labor Law Posters states at its very top a very interesting and revealing fact, which also explains why these posters could be necessary in the first place. The posting starts by saying that in the state of Illinois, women earn 71 cents for every one dollar that a man makes. That means that women make more than 25 percent less than men do on average for doing the same amount of work.

The posting then goes on to illustrate that unfair equation with a picture of 71 cents in change, compared to an actual dollar bill, with the words “for here” and “for him” over each picture of money.

Then this posting in the Illinois Labor Law Posters clearly states next that “Equal Pay is the Law.”

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