Article 1505. Department Of Labor

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-1)
    Sec. 1505-1. Article short title. This Article 1505 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the Department of Labor Law.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-5)
    Sec. 1505-5. Definition. In this Law, "Department" means the Department of Labor.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-10) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43)
    Sec. 1505-10. Powers, generally. The Department has the powers enumerated in the following Sections.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-15) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.07)
    Sec. 1505-15. Welfare of wage earners. The Department has the power to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-20) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.13)
    Sec. 1505-20. Prosperity of laboring men and women; progress of women and minorities.
    (a) The Department has the power to acquire and diffuse among the people useful information concerning the means of promoting the material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity of laboring men and women.
    (b) The Department shall monitor the employment progress of women and minorities in the work force, including access to the public sector, the private sector, labor unions, and collective bargaining units. This information shall be provided to the General Assembly in the form of an annual report no later than April 1 of each year.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-25) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.09)
    Sec. 1505-25. Opportunities for profitable employment. The Department has the power to advance opportunities for profitable employment.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-30) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.08)
    Sec. 1505-30. Improving working conditions. The Department has the power to improve working conditions.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-35) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.10)
    Sec. 1505-35. Statistical details relating to departments of labor. The Department has the power to collect, collate, assort, systematize, and report statistical details relating to all departments of labor, especially in its relation to commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary conditions, and to the permanent prosperity of the manufacturing and productive industries.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-40) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.12)
    Sec. 1505-40. Information on subjects connected with labor. The Department has the power to acquire and diffuse useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-45) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.15a)
    Sec. 1505-45. Migrant agricultural labor. The Department has the power to study the nature and extent of the labor and employment problems of migrant agricultural labor, with particular attention to its differences from the problems of resident agricultural labor.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-50) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.16)
    Sec. 1505-50. Prevention of accidents and occupational diseases. The Department has the power to acquire and diffuse information in relation to the prevention of accidents, occupational diseases, and other related subjects.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-55)
    Sec. 1505-55. Transfer of Illinois Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program. On and after July 1, 2012, as provided in the OSHA Program Reorganization Act, the powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities related to the Illinois Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program, including, but not limited to, the duty to provide confidential on-site assistance to identify problems and solutions regarding compliance with the requirements of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, are transferred from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to the Department of Labor.
(Source: P.A. 97-787, eff. 7-13-12.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-120) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.17)
    Sec. 1505-120. Act in relation to payment of wages. The Department has the power to exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested by law in the Department of Labor under "An Act in relation to the payment of wages due employees from their employers in certain cases, to provide for the enforcement thereof through the Department of Labor, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof", approved July 9, 1937 (repealed).
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-125)
    Sec. 1505-125. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors. The Department of Labor, the Department of Employment Security, the Department of Revenue, the Office of the State Comptroller and the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission shall cooperate under the Employee Classification Act by sharing information concerning any suspected misclassification by an employer or entity, as defined in the Employee Classification Act, of one or more employees as independent contractors.
(Source: P.A. 95-26, eff. 1-1-08.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-130)
    Sec. 1505-130. Arbitration services. If the Department of Labor began providing arbitration services with respect to a particular controversy or difference under the Labor Arbitration Services Act before its repeal, the Department may continue to provide such arbitration services as may be necessary for the resolution of that controversy or difference in accordance with that Act as it existed immediately before its repeal.
(Source: P.A. 97-190, eff. 7-22-11.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-150) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.20)
    Sec. 1505-150. Complaints by child care facility employees. The Department has the power to investigate complaints, hold hearings, make determinations, and take other actions with respect to complaints against employers filed by employees of child care facilities pursuant to Section 7.2 of the Child Care Act of 1969.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-200) (was 20 ILCS 1505/43.21)
    Sec. 1505-200. Criminal history record information. Whenever the Department is authorized or required by law to consider some aspect of criminal history record information for the purpose of carrying out its statutory powers and responsibilities, then, upon request and payment of fees in conformance with the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the Department of State Police Law (20 ILCS 2605/2605-400), the Department of State Police is authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive identification, any information contained in State files that is necessary to fulfill the request.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-205)
    Sec. 1505-205. Badges. The Director must authorize each employee of the Department exercising the powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by the Department and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)

    (20 ILCS 1505/1505-210)
    Sec. 1505-210. Funds. The Department has the authority to apply for, accept, receive, expend, and administer on behalf of the State any grants, gifts, bequests, loans, indirect cost reimbursements, funds, or anything else of value made available to the Department from any source for assistance with outreach activities related to the Department's enforcement efforts and staffing assistance for boards and commissions under the purview of the Department. Any federal funds received by the Department pursuant to this Section shall be deposited in a trust fund with the State Treasurer and held and disbursed by him or her in accordance with the Treasurer as Custodian of Funds Act, provided that such moneys shall be used only for the purposes for which they are contributed and any balance remaining shall be returned to the contributor. The Department is authorized to promulgate such rules and enter into such contracts as it may deem necessary in carrying out the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 97-745, eff. 7-6-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)