Injured as a 1099 Construction Worker in Illinois: Are You Really Not Covered?
Key Takeaways A 1099 does not decide whether you are covered. The Act defines an employee as anyone “in the service of another under any contract of hire.” The phrase “independent contractor” appears nowhere in it (820 ILCS 305/1(b)(2)). Construction is an enterprise the Act calls extra hazardous, so it applies “automatically and without election” […]