Twice each year, employers must check with the state of Illinois to ensure the temp or temp-to-perm service they use is registered with the state. The regulations state that “Third party clients have a duty to verify that a day and temporary labor service agency is registered with the Department before entering into a contract with the agency, and again on March 1 and September 1 of each year. Third party clients may verify that an agency is registered by consulting the Department's website.” Along with verifying the registration of your agency, if the employee works only one day, the client employer must also issue a work-verification at the end of that day.The listing and verification forms are at www.state.il.us/agency/idol/listings/dlagency.htm and www.state.il.us/agency/idol/forms/pdfs/sampleverification.pdf. Questions?Call
at PII, (312) 580-3032.
PII Address Update
Your Association has relocated the Chicago headquarters office from the fifth floor of our building to the fourth floor. Please change your billing address for PII to 70 E. Lake Street, Suite 430, Chicago, IL60601-7647.
Our phone numbers remain the same.
PRINTING INDUSTRY CREDIT BUREAU
In a difficult and uncertain economic climate, you know that you can rely on your Association to provide you with the most effective products and services available for your graphic arts business.Andrea Schlack, manager of the Printing Industry Credit Bureau, has ably managed your credit and collection needs for the past decade, teaching our members how to knowledgeably provide credit to would-be customers and helping them collect when that becomes necessary.PII and Andrea were pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2009, credit and collection services for PII’s members began to be provided under the leadership and ownership of Andrea Schlack as Professional Credit Management Associates, Inc. (PCMA), d/b/a Printing Industry Credit Bureau.Learn more about credit and collection services by clicking the button on the left of this page.
IRS Lowers Standard Mileage Rates for 2010
As anticipated, the IRS has lowered the 2010 optional standard mileage rate for the use of a car to 50 cents per mile for business and to 16.5 cents per mile for medical or moving purposes. The rate for charitable purposes at 14 cents per mile is unchanged from 2009 and is set by law.
2008 IL/IN Trade Finishers Directory
The Graphic Finishing Industries, PII's special industry group of metro Chicago's trade finisher community, is pleased to offer the 2008 edition of the GFI Directory. This uniquely informative piece allows you to easily identify Illinois and Indiana area trade finishers that have the specific capabilities you are seeking. The GFI Directory also contains the Guidelines for Normal Spoilage Allowances in postpress operations. For your complimentary copy, contact the PII offices at 312-704-5000.
As always, we urge you to work with your bindery supplier at the beginning stages of production. Early collaboration among prepress, print and postpress production personnel — including designers — will enhance the final result.
Remember, your job's not done until it's finished!
