Illinois · statute · 815 ILCS 630 · 11 active provisions
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Job Referral and Job Listing Services Consumer Protection Act". (Source: P.A. 85-1367.)
Definitions. (a) "Employer" means a person seeking to obtain employees to perform services, tasks, or labor for which a salary, wage, or other compensation or benefits are to be paid. (b) "Job listing service", "job referral service" or "Service" means any person who by advertisement or otherwise offers to provide job…
The provisions of this Act shall apply to any person engaging in any of the activities regulated by this Act, including persons who transact business in this State but whose residence or principal place of business is located outside of this State. (Source: P.A. 85-1367.)
The provisions of this Act shall not apply to: (a) Any State, federal or local governmental agency that performs such services; (b) Any labor union that procures employment for any of its members in any job coming under the jurisdiction of the union; (c) Any news periodical which contains listings of or classified adve…
Every Service shall be required to: (1) Keep and make available to the Attorney General during regular business hours, and to the State's Attorney of any county in which the Service conducts business the following records: (a) All job listing authorizations received by the Service during the immediate past year. Each s…
Prior to the acceptance of a fee from a job seeker, a Service shall provide the job seeker with a written contract which shall include at least the following: (1) The name of the Service and the addresses and telephone number of each primary and other locations of the Service. (2) A description of the job seeker's spec…
Every contract or receipt shall be made and numbered consecutively in original and duplicate, both to be signed by the job seeker and an agent or employee of the Service. The original shall be given to the job seeker and the duplicate shall be kept on file at the Service's primary location. (Source: P.A. 85-1367.)
(1) A Service shall refund in full the fee paid by a job seeker if the Service does not, within 10 calendar days after execution of the contract, supply at least 3 employment opportunities then available to the job seeker and meeting the specifications of the contract. (2) A Service will be deemed to have supplied info…
In addition to any act or practice in violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, as now or hereafter amended, it shall be a violation of this Act for any Service or its agent or employee to do any of the following: (a) Make, or cause to be made, publish or cause to be published, any false, mi…
Newspaper advertising pertaining to employment opportunities offered or provided by a Service appearing within or adjacent to help-wanted or classified job advertising shall contain the phrases "Not an Employment Agency" and "Advance Fee Required" in a clear, conspicuous, and prominent manner, and shall include the leg…
Violation of any of the provisions of this Act is an unlawful practice pursuant to Section 2 of the Deceptive Business Practices Act, as now or hereafter amended. All remedies, penalties and authority granted to the Attorney General or a State's Attorney by that Act shall be available to them for the enforcement of thi…