Illinois’s Equal Pay Registration Certificate (EPRC) portal is experiencing technical issues when employers submit a pay report that categorizes employees as Middle Eastern or North African (MENA). Until Illinois resolves these glitches, employers should use “Some other race alone” instead of MENA when submitting employee demographic data, the Illinois Department of Labor told the Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association.
Illinois requires employers with 100 or more employees in the state to obtain an EPRC, which involves submitting demographic and wage data to IDOL every two years. Employers have received error messages when attempting to use the MENA race category, which was added in 2025, during the EPRC certification process.
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