(225 ILCS 515/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 908)
Sec. 8.
Any such licensee conducting a theatrical employment agency, before
making a theatrical engagement, except an emergency engagement, for an
employee with any employer, for services in any such engagement, shall
prepare and file in such agency a written statement signed and verified by
the employment agent of such licensee, setting forth how long said employer
has been engaged in the theatrical business. Every such statement shall be
kept for the period of one year and shall set forth whether or not such
employer, while financially interested in a theatrical business, has failed
to pay salaries, or "left stranded" any company, group or employee during
the two years preceding the date of application; and further, shall set
forth the names of at least two persons as references. If such employer is
a corporation, such statement shall set forth the names of the officers and
directors thereof, the length of time such corporation, or any of its
officers have been engaged in the theatrical business, and the amount of
the paid up capital stock. If the employer conducts a cabaret or
night-club, the agent shall include in such statement the name and address
of the owner or owners, and whether they have failed to pay salaries to
employees within the past two years. If any allegation in such written
verified statement is made upon information or belief, the person verifying
this statement shall set forth the sources of his information or belief.
Such statement so on file shall be kept for the benefit of any employees
whose services are sought by any such employers.
Every such licensee conducting a theatrical employment agency who shall
procure for or offer to an applicant a theatrical engagement, or any kind
of employment as an entertainer, shall have executed in triplicate a
contract containing the name and address of the applicant, the name and
address of the employer and that of the employment agency acting for such
employer, in employing or furnishing such applicant for employment, the
character of the entertainment to be given, or services to be rendered, the
number of performances to be given per day or per week, by whom the
transportation, if any, is to be paid, and if it is to be paid by the
applicant either the cost of the transportation between the places where
said entertainment or services are to be given or rendered, or the average
cost of such transportation. Said contract shall state from whom said
applicant is to receive his or her salary, the amount of salary promised
and the gross commissions or fees are to be paid by said applicant and to
whom such gross commissions or fees to be paid. The original contract shall
be given to the applicant for employment, the duplicate contract shall be
given to the employer and the triplicate contract shall be kept on file in
the office of the agency for a period of one year.
(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1929.)
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