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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Durkin partially grants a number of staffing and temp agencies’ motion to enjoin a number of new Illinois labor protections for temporary workers that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law last year. One new protection requires the agencies to pay workers who are at a job site for more than 90 days wages commensurate with the lowest-paid, directly hired employee of the company that hired the agencies for their temp workers. Another protection attempts to discourage scabbing during labor strikes: It requires the temp agencies to inform their workers of any job happening at the site of a labor dispute, and bars the temp agencies from holding temp workers’ refusal to work despite the strike against them when they seek another job. A third protection allows “interested parties” to seek private action against any temp agency the parties suspect of violating labor law. The court finds that the temp agencies have made a showing of irreparable harm and that the balance of equities tips in their favor, but orders the agencies and the Illinois Department of Labor to jointly submit a proposed preliminary injunction order on or before March 15.