Supreme Court Rejects Vagueness Challenge to Classification Act

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge to the state's Employee Classification Act, finding its provisions on how to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee were not impermissibly vague.A husband and wife who ran a construction company known as Jack's Roofing mounted the constitutional attack after they received a notice from the Department of Labor in 2008 – just months after the act took effect – threatening them with a $1,683,000 penalty for having misclassified 10 workers as independent contractors.Jack and Rhon...