(820 ILCS 105/11) (from Ch. 48, par. 1011)
    Sec. 11. (a) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any private employer who:
        (1) hinders or delays the Director or his authorized
    
representative in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of this Act; or
        (2) refuses to admit the Director or his authorized
    
representative to any place of employment; or
        (3) fails to keep the records required under this Act
    
or to furnish such records required or any information to be furnished under this Act to the Director or his authorized representative upon request; or
        (4) fails to make and preserve any records as
    
required hereunder; or
        (5) falsifies any such record; or
        (6) refuses to make such records available to the
    
Director or his authorized representative; or
        (7) refuses to furnish a sworn statement of such
    
records or any other information required for the proper enforcement of this Act; or
        (8) fails to post a summary of this Act or a copy of
    
any applicable regulation as required by Section 9 of this Act;
shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor; and each day of such failure to keep the records required under this Act or to furnish such records or information to the Director or his authorized representative or to fail to post information as required herein constitutes a separate offense. Any such employer who fails to keep payroll records as required by this Act shall be liable to the Department for a penalty of $100 per impacted employee, payable to the Department's Wage Theft Enforcement Fund.
    (b) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any private employer, who pays or agrees to pay to any employee wages at a rate less than the rate applicable under this Act or of any regulation issued under this Act is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor, and each week on any day of which such employee is paid less than the wage rate applicable under this Act constitutes a separate offense.
    (c) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any private employer, who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because that employee has made a complaint to his employer, or to the Director or his authorized representative, that he has not been paid wages in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or because that employee has caused to be instituted or is about to cause to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this Act, or because that employee has testified or is about to testify in an investigation or proceeding under this Act, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
    (d) It is the duty of the Department of Labor to inquire diligently for any violations of this Act, and to institute the action for penalties herein provided, and to enforce generally the provisions of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 101-1, eff. 2-19-19.)