(820 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 4a)
Sec. 1.
Any employer of 6 or more persons in this State engaged in the
manufacture of any article, who shall pay any person engaged in such
manufacture an unequal wage for equal work, by time or piece work, than is
being paid to any other person employed in such manufacture, shall be
guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not less than $25 nor more
than $100; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit
a variation in rates of pay based upon either difference in seniority,
experience, training, skill or ability, or difference in duties or services
performed (whether regularly or occasionally), or difference in
availability for other operations, or any other reasonable classification,
excepting difference in sex. Provided, further, that nothing herein
contained shall prohibit such variation where the same is authorized by a
contract between an employer and a recognized bargaining agent.
(Source: P.A. 78-843.)
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