(820 ILCS 405/205) (from Ch. 48, par. 315)

Sec. 205. "Employer" means:

A. With respect to the years 1937, 1938, and 1939, any employing unit which has or had in employment eight or more individuals on some portion of a day, but not necessarily simultaneously, and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed on each such day within each of twenty or more calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year;

B. 1. With respect to the years 1940 through 1955, inclusive, any employing unit which has or had in employment six or more individuals within each of twenty or more calendar weeks (but not necessarily simultaneously and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed in each such week), whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year;

2. With respect to the years 1956 through 1971, inclusive, any employing unit which has or had in employment four or more individuals within each of twenty or more calendar weeks (but not necessarily simultaneously and irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed in each such week), whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year;

3. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301, any employing unit which (1) pays or paid, for services in employment, wages of at least $1500 within any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year; or (2) has or had in employment at least one individual on some portion of a day, irrespective of whether the same individual is or was employed on each such day, within each of twenty or more calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive, within either the current or preceding calendar year;

4. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, any nonprofit organization as defined in Section 211.2, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301;

5. With respect to the years 1972 and thereafter, the State of Illinois and each of its instrumentalities; and with respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, each governmental entity referred to in clause (B) of Section 211.1, except as provided in Section 301;

6. With respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, any employing unit for which service in agricultural labor is performed in employment as defined in Section 211.4, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301;

7. With respect to the years 1978 and thereafter, any employing unit for which domestic service is performed in employment as defined in Section 211.5, except as provided in subsection K and in Section 301;

C. Any individual or employing unit which succeeded to the organization, trade, or business of another employing unit which at the time of such succession was an employer, and any individual or employing unit which succeeded to the organization, trade, or business of any distinct severable portion of another employing unit, which portion, if treated as a separate employing unit, would have been, at the time of the succession, an employer under subsections A or B of this Section;

D. Any individual or employing unit which succeeded to any of the assets of an employer or to any of the assets of a distinct severable portion thereof, if such portion, when treated as a separate employing unit would be an employer under subsections A or B of this Section, by any means whatever, otherwise than in the ordinary course of business, unless and until it is proven in any proceeding where such issue is involved that all of the following exist:

1. The successor unit has not assumed a substantial amount of the predecessor unit's obligations; and

2. The successor unit has not acquired a substantial amount of the predecessor unit's good will; and

3. The successor unit has not continued or resumed a substantial part of the business of the predecessor unit in the same establishment;

E. Any individual or employing unit which succeeded to the organization, trade, or business, or to any of the assets of a predecessor unit (unless and until it is proven in any proceeding where such issue is involved that all the conditions enumerated in subsection D of this Section exist), if the experience of the successor unit subsequent to such succession plus the experience of the predecessor unit prior to such succession, both within the same calendar year, would equal the experience necessary to constitute an employing unit an employer under subsections A or B of this Section;

For the purposes of this subsection, the term "predecessor unit" shall include any distinct severable portion of an employing unit.

F. With respect to the years 1937 through 1955, inclusive, any employing unit which together with one or more other employing units is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by legally enforceable means or otherwise, by the same interests, or which owns or controls one or more other employing units directly or indirectly, by legally enforceable means or otherwise, and which if treated as a single unit with such other employing units or interests or both would be an employer under subsections A or B of this Section;

G. Any employing unit which, having become an employer under subsections A, B, C, D, E, or F of this Section, has not, under Section 301, ceased to be an employer;

H. For the effective period of its election pursuant to Section 302, any other employing unit which has elected to become fully subject to this Act;

I. Any employing unit which is an employer under Section 245;

J. Any employing unit which, having become an employer under Section 245, has not, with respect to the year 1960 or thereafter, ceased to be an employer under Section 301; or

J-1. On and after December 21, 2000, any Indian tribe for which service in "employment" as defined under this Act is performed.

K. In determining whether or not an employing unit for which service other than domestic service is also performed is an employer under paragraphs 3, 4, or 6 of subsection B, the domestic service of an individual and the wages paid therefor shall not be taken into account. In determining whether or not an employing unit for which service other than agricultural labor is also performed is an employer under paragraphs 4 or 7 of subsection B, the service of an individual in agricultural labor and the wages paid therefor shall not be taken into account. An employing unit which is an employer under paragraph 6 of subsection B is an employer under paragraph 3 of subsection B.

(Source: P.A. 92-555, eff. 6-24-02.)