(820 ILCS 125/15) (from Ch. 48, par. 198.15)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2024)

Sec. 15. 1. Any employer and his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has served or is about to serve on a wage board or has testified or is about to testify before any wage board or in any other investigation or proceeding under or related to this act or because such employer believes that said employee may serve on any wage board or may testify before any wage board or in any investigation or proceeding under this act shall be guilty of a petty offense.

2. Any employer or the officer or agent of any corporation who pays or agrees to pay to any woman or minor employee less than the rates applicable to such woman or minor under a mandatory minimum fair wage order shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and each week in any day of which such employee is paid less than the rate applicable to him under a mandatory minimum fair wage order and each employee so paid less shall constitute a separate offense.

3. Any employer or the officer or agent of any corporation who fails to keep the records required under this act or to furnish such records to the Department upon request shall be guilty of a petty offense and each day of such failure to keep the records requested under this act or to furnish same to the Department shall constitute a separate offense.

(Source: P.A. 77-2434. Repealed by P.A. 103-201, eff. 1-1-24.)