Illinois Statutes Chapter 815. Business Transactions § 630/2. Definitions

(a) “Employer” means a person seeking to obtain employees to perform services, tasks, or labor for which a salary, wage, or other compensation or benefits are to be paid.

(b) “Job listing service”, “job referral service” or “Service” means any person who by advertisement or otherwise offers to provide job seekers with a list of employers or list of job referrals, openings or like publications, or prepares resumes or lists of job seekers for distribution to potential employers, where a fee is charged to or collected from the job seeker, either directly or indirectly, for such service.

(c) “Prepaid computer job matching service” means any person, who is engaged in the business of matching job seekers with employment opportunities, pursuant to an arrangement under which the job seeker is required to pay a fee in advance of, or contemporaneously with, the supplying of the matching, but which does not otherwise involve services for the procurement of employment by the person conducting the service.

(d) “Job seeker” means any individual seeking employment, career guidance, counseling or employment related services or products.

(e) “Job listing authorization” means an oral or written communication from an employer authorizing a Service to list a currently available position.

(f) “Person” means any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation.