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820 ILCS 35/2

(820 ILCS 35/2) (from Ch. 10, par. 20)

Sec. 2.

When any controversy or difference not involving questions which
may be the subject of a civil action, exists between an employer, whether
an individual, copartnership or corporation, employing not less than 25
persons, and his employees in this State, the Department of Labor shall upon
application as herein provided, and as soon as practicable thereafter,
visit the locality of the dispute and make a careful inquiry into the cause
thereof, hear all persons interested therein who may come before it, advise
the respective parties what, if anything ought to be done or submitted to
by both to adjust the dispute, and make a written decision thereof. This
decision shall at once be made public, shall be recorded upon proper books
of record kept by the Department of Labor, and a short statement thereof
published in the annual report hereinafter provided for, and the Department
shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the clerk of the city, town or
village where said business is carried on.

(Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)