Under the Minimum Wage Law and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, an employer is obligated to pay an employee for all time worked. Illinois now recognizes, as a fundamental right, the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.Illinois became the fourth state in the country to protect collective bargaining in its constitution. There is no impediment to an employee's right to resign union membership at any time. Enter File Number (if known) OR specify one or more fields below to search for unions that meet your criteria. Employees in filling out all necessary Workers' Compensation forms, when requested. Ballots can be mailed out to applicants starting 45 days before Election Day. Apprentices are entitled to the apprentice rate if they're either: aged under 19; aged 19 or over and in the first year of their apprenticeship. Example. The question is not whether they have constitutional rights, but rather what rights probationers and parolees retain.