High Court Denies Rehearing of Challenge to Classification Act

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday denied rehearing of its prior decision upholding the constitutionality of the state's Employee Classification Act.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 Rhonda Bartlow sought a restraining order to prevent the department from making a "final det...