Bir Certificate Of Registration Requirements

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Illinois law requires private businesses with 100 or more employees in the State of Illinois* to submit an application to obtain an Equal Pay Registration Certificate (EPRC) by providing certain pay, demographic, and other data to the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) by March 24, 2024, and to recertify every two years after the first submission. The law also requires such employers to submit certain information with their application, including: a statement certifying that the business is in compliance with the Equal Pay Act of 2003 and other State and federal laws related to equal pay.

Please visit IDOL's Equal Pay Registration Certificate page to access the online portal that businesses must use to submit their contact information and required data to IDOL, a training guide for use of the portal, a compliance statement template, and other certification information and resources.

Below are answers to frequently asked questions regarding the Equal Pay Registration Certificate and what is required of businesses that are required to obtain a certificate. Please email DOL....@illinois.gov with any questions not answered below.

*Per House Bill 4604 of the 102nd General Assembly, for the purposes of this requirement, "business" means any private employer who has 100 or more employees in the State of Illinois and is required to file an Annual Employer Information Report EEO-1 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but does not include the State of Illinois or any political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other governmental unit or agency.

The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provided below highlight topics and specific questions that are often asked of the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL). The information provided in the FAQs is intended to enhance public access and understanding of IDOL laws, regulations and compliance information.

The FAQs should not be considered a substitute for the appropriate official documents (i.e. statute and/or administrative rules.) Individuals are urged to consult legal counsel of their choice. Court decisions may affect the interpretation and constitutionality of statutes. The Department cannot offer individuals legal advice or offer advisory opinions. If you need a legal opinion, we suggest you consult your own legal counsel. These FAQs are not to be considered complete and do not relieve employers from complying with applicable IDOL laws and regulations.

In 2021, the Illinois General Assembly passed and Governor Pritzker signed into law PA 101-656 and PA 102-36. These laws amended the Equal Pay Act of 2003 (820 ILCS 112 et seq.) by adding Section 11, which requires all private employers with 100 or more employees in Illinois to submit demographic and wage data to IDOL, along with a filed Annual Employer Information Report EEO-1 (IDOL has administratively suspended the EEO-1 filing requirement for businesses given an original deadline filing date in the calendar year 2023) and an Equal Pay Compliance Statement certifying that, among other things, the average compensation for its female and minority employees is not consistently below the average compensation for its male and non-minority employees. These legislative changes are intended to promote pay transparency and ensure that all Illinoisians, regardless of their background, receive equal pay for substantially similar work they do on behalf of an employer.

Existing Business: ONLY employers with 100 or more employees in Illinois (FAQ 5) AND that are required to file an EEO-1 with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (or their holding company is required to file an EEO-1) are required to obtain an Equal Pay Registration Certificate. If you have not been contacted by IDOL and have not provided IDOL with your contact information, please visit the survey of business contacts to receive further instructions .

New Businesses: New private businesses with 100 or more employees in Illinois and that are required to file an EEO-1 with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity must visit the survey of business contacts; IDOL will then provide you with an EPRC deadlie due date, which will provide 120 days for your business to complete its submission. Once a new business has received an Equal Pay Registration Certificate, it is required to recertify every two years after the initial certification was issued (See FAQ 4).

Employers with 99 or fewer employees: Businesses with 99 or fewer employees are not required to obtain an Equal Pay Registration Certificate. If a business receives a notice to certify or recertify and the business has 99 or fewer employees, or had 100 or more employees and now has 99 or fewer employees, the business must file an enrollment form with IDOL (see FAQ 13).

The portal is designed for you to register multiple businesses under one login when you have a separate business. A separate business is a business name that has a different/separate EIN or FEIN. If you created a login for a business/EIN that has 99 or fewer employees, then you must 1) complete the Exemption/Business Name Change Form for that business name (See FAQ 14); you cannot delete an EPRC account or delete a business name added to an EPRC account for auditing purposes.

After receiving an initial Equal Pay Registration Certificate, businesses are required to recertify every two years from the date your last certificate was issued. IDOL will contact businesses by email to all email addresses provided in your EPRC account 180 days prior to recertification deadlines.

For determining the requirement to certify, the total number of employees is the total number of Illinois employees your business employed on December 31 of the calendar year immediately preceding your reporting deadline.

To add a user: The new contact/user must create its own public ID, then log into the EPRC portal with the EIN number of your business. A notice will appear that the EIN is already in the system. The new user will the request access to the existing EPRC account which will generate an email to the primary user who can then approve the secondary contact.

To promote a secondary user: To promote a secondary user to primary user status, the primary user must log into the EPRC account and click the plus sign icon next to the business contact to be promoted to primary status. This will demote the primary contact to secondary status. If you need to delete a secondary contact click the trash can next to that contact name.

1. To create an Illinois Public ID Account, click here (will open a new tab). Do not close out of this page, after your account is created, you will need to return here to log in to the online portal.

2. Click "Create a new Account" and complete the registration form. Note: The address for your business is the main business address you sue for correspondence whether inside Illinois our out-of-state.

1. Import or upload a list of all employees during the calendar year immediately preceding your application due date separated by gender, race, and ethnicity categories as reported to in the most recently filed EEO-1 in a text-searchable, sortable Microsoft Excel file or comma-separated values file format, as well as any other information required by IDOL (a sample template for wage data can be found at Equal Pay Registration Certificate Template (XLS).

2. The business may provide any other information it believes is relevant to explain any pay disparities amongst its employees by uploading a document containing the relevant information AND listing which employees the information applies to in the document section of the portal.

4. If you are completing a recertification, you are not required to upload a copy of any EEO-1 report you filed with the Federal EEOC. If your business is completing an original application for an Original Notice of Deadline date of January 1, 2023 or later, you are not required to upload a copy of any EEO-1 report. If your business is completing an original application for an Original Notice of Deadline date prior to January 1, 2023, you are required to upload the EEO-1 statement you filed in the year 2021 with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.; and

Data must be imported in alpha and numeric data only; use of special characters, decimal points, commas, or abbreviations will cause a data error. The best form to import data is in a CSV file. A sample data template is available here. You must use the exact language from the template to have your data import without error messages.

If an employee simultaneously works for a single employer in different classifications or with different titles, the business should upload a document with an explanation which lists the employees involved to the document section of the portal.

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