In recent years, Illinois has gone the way of states like California and New York by expanding workplace protections for employees. That trend was evident in 2024 with the passage of several laws that took effect on January 1, 2025. Those laws provide additional rights to employees with respect to pay transparency, whistleblowing, E-Verify, captive audience meetings and rights under the Illinois Human Rights Act, to name a few. The trend has continued in the new year with the Illinois legislature passing the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (HB 2547), which the governor is expected to sign. Effective January 1, 2026, the Act will impose new obligations on employers operating large warehouse distribution centers in Illinois where employees are held to a quota.
Summary: Non-administrative, nonexempt employees who work in a large warehouse distribution center where they are subject to a quota must be provided with written details about the quota and what may happen if the quota is not met. If adverse action is taken against an employee for failing to meet a quota, the employee has a right to receive a written explanation about how their work failed to satisfy the quota. Employees (including former employees) who believe they received an adverse action because they did not meet a quota also have a right to receive, among other things, their personal work speed data for the last 90 days and a copy of the aggregated work speed data for employees in similar roles who worked at the same location and for the same time period.
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