(225 ILCS 515/11) (from Ch. 111, par. 914)
Sec. 11. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise:
The term "employment agency" means any person engaged for gain or profit in the business of securing or attempting to secure employment for persons seeking employment or employees for employers. However, the term "employment agency" shall not include any person engaged in the business of consulting or recruiting, and who in the course of such business is compensated solely by any employer to identify, appraise, or recommend an individual or individuals who are at least 18 years of age or who hold a high school diploma for consideration for a position, provided that in no instance is the individual who is identified, appraised, or recommended for consideration for such position charged a fee directly or indirectly in connection with such identification, appraisal, or recommendation, or for preparation of any resume, or on account of any other personal service performed by the person engaged in the business of consulting or recruiting; but this exclusion is not applicable to theatrical employment agencies or domestic service employment agencies.
The term "employer" means any person employing or seeking to employ any person for hire.
The term "employee" means any person performing or seeking to perform work or services of any kind or character whatsoever for hire.
The term "person" means any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation.
The term "employment counsellor" means employees of any employment agency who interview, counsel, or advise applicants or employers or both on employment or allied problems, or who make or arrange contracts or contacts between employers and employees. The term "employment counsellor" includes employees who solicit orders for employees from prospective employers.
The term "acceptance" means a mutual agreement, verbal or written, between employee and employer as to starting salary, position, time and place of employment.
The term "applicant" means any person who uses the services of an employment agency to secure employment for himself.
The term "department" means the Department of Labor.
The term "Director" means the Director of the Department of Labor.
The term "fee" means money or a promise to pay money. The term "fee" also means and includes the excess of money received by any such licensee over what he has paid for transportation, transfer of baggage, or lodging, for any applicant for employment. The term "fee" also means and includes the difference between the amount of money received by any person, who furnishes employees or performers for any entertainment, exhibition or performance, and the amount paid by the person receiving the amount of money to the employees or performers whom he hires to give such entertainment, exhibition or performance.
The term "privilege" means and includes the furnishing of food, supplies, tools or shelter to contract laborers, commonly known as commissary privileges.
The term "theatrical employment agency" means and includes the business of conducting an agency, bureau, office or any other place for the purpose of procuring or offering, promising or attempting to provide engagements for persons who want employment in the following occupations: circus, vaudeville, theatrical and other entertainment, or exhibitions, or performances, or of giving information as to where such engagements may be procured or provided, whether such business is conducted in a building, on the street, or elsewhere.
The term "theatrical engagement" means and includes any engagement or employment of a person as an actor, performer, or entertainer, in a circus, vaudeville, theatrical or any other entertainment, exhibition or performance.
The term "emergency engagement" means and includes any engagement that is to be performed within 24 hours of the time such application was made by an employer.
The term "domestic service" means household work in the home of the employer and includes, but is not limited to, work as a maid, cook, butler, gardener, chauffeur, housekeeper or babysitter.
(Source: P.A. 89-295, eff. 8-11-95.)
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