On May 19, 2023, both Houses of the Illinois General Assembly passed HB2862, which amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act, 820 ILCS 175/. On June 16, 2023, the bill was sent to the Governor, ...

Amendments to the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act mandate that day and temporary workers assigned to a third-party client for more than 90 calendar days be paid at least as much as the lowest ...

Temporary employment is on the rise, and may become a much larger feature of the recovering economy. We look at the potential consequences, which may be very different for blue-collar workers than ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A group of temporary staffing agencies and their trade associations are asking a federal court to block enforcement of a new state law that governs how day laborers and temp ...

A new Beige Book was released Wednesday — that’s the Federal Reserve’s periodic report on how economic conditions feel on the ground — and a lot of business owners expressed uncertainty, with the war ...

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As Federal Open Markets Committee members turn their attention from this week’s interest rate decision to September’s, the upcoming employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be ...

Nearly everything you encounter in your day-to-day life is touched by temporary workers: from the TV you watch to the tires on your car to the bed you sleep in every night. Temporary workers do it all ...