Case: Wage & Hour/Unpaid Wages (Ill. App.)

An Illinois Appellate Court affirmed the circuit court’s ruling that corporate officers were not personally liable under the Wage Payment and Collection Act for a corporation’s failure to pay wages, rejecting the Illinois Department of Labor’s argument that a 2011 amendment to section 13 of the Act impliedly expanded the definition of “employer” in section 2 to include corporate officers as strictly liable for wage payments, finding that the amendment maintained the distinction between corporate liability and individual officer liability requiring knowing permission of violations.

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