About 3,324 people who worked through the Wonolo app in Illinois between October 2018 and October 2023 were covered by a $600,000 Illinois Attorney General settlement over alleged worker misclassification. The claim deadline passed on December 3, 2025, and under the court’s consent decree, the shares of workers who did not claim were sent to the Attorney General’s Office rather than back to Wonolo.
What Is This About?
The Illinois Attorney General sued Wonolo, Inc., the company behind an app that matches workers with short-term shifts at warehouses, retailers and other businesses, alleging it misclassified its Illinois workers as independent contractors. According to the Attorney General, that classification meant workers were not paid overtime premiums for hours over 40 a week, were not guaranteed the state minimum wage, and did not receive the four hours of pay Illinois requires when a temporary assignment is cut short. The investigation covered October 8, 2018 through October 23, 2023.The case was resolved by a consent decree in People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Raoul v. Wonolo, Inc., No. 2025-CH-07609, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division. Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson adopted and entered the decree on August 5, 2025. Wonolo agreed to pay $600,000 for the 3,324 workers listed in the decree, while denying any liability or wrongdoing; the decree says it is not a finding on any issue of fact or law.
The claim period is over. Under the decree, workers had 120 days from August 5, 2025 to file, which made the deadline December 3, 2025, and the claim form on the settlement website is no longer available.
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Where the Unclaimed Money Went
The settlement website warned that workers who missed the deadline would “lose your opportunity to recover the wages you may be owed.” The consent decree itself does not send their money back to Wonolo. Under paragraph 53, for every listed worker who did not submit a claim within 120 days, the settlement administrator was to deliver a check for that worker’s share to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, made payable to the worker’s name “or the Illinois Department of Labor.”The decree does not lay out a process for a worker to collect one of those checks later. The case was handled by the Attorney General’s Workplace Rights Bureau.
How Payments Were Calculated and When They Were Due
Each worker’s payment was a fixed percentage, assigned in an exhibit to the decree, of the settlement account after administration costs, which the decree estimated at $24,344. Wonolo paid the $600,000 in four monthly installments of $150,000. Spread evenly across all 3,324 listed workers, the net fund would average about $173 per person, but individual shares varied with each worker’s assigned percentage.The decree treats the payments as wages reported on IRS Form W-2, and required the administrator, Atticus Administration, to pay claimants within 240 days of August 5, 2025, which was early April 2026. Claimants could choose direct deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal or a prepaid Mastercard. OCA has not found a public report confirming when the payments were completed.
What Changed for Wonolo Workers in Illinois
The decree also changed how Wonolo operates in the state. By January 1, 2026, Wonolo or its affiliate Frontline Work LLC, which does business as Grow2 by Wonolo, was required to:- classify anyone performing temporary labor in Illinois through the Wonolo platform as an employee of Grow2 by Wonolo or another Wonolo affiliate, and issue the matching tax forms;
- pay time and a half for hours over 40 in a workweek, counting all hours worked through any Wonolo service in Illinois together;
- pay four hours at the agreed rate when a worker who accepted an assignment of four hours or more shows up on time but works less through no fault of their own, or two hours if the worker works at another location that day; and
- register with the Illinois Department of Labor as a day and temporary labor service agency, and contract only with registered agencies.
The decree runs for three years from August 5, 2025. The Attorney General can audit Wonolo’s payroll records and ask the court to enforce the terms.
What Workers Gave Up
In exchange for the payment, the decree releases Wonolo and the businesses that used its platform from the overtime, minimum wage and four-hour pay claims covered by the investigation, for work from October 8, 2018 through October 23, 2023. It states that no worker listed in the decree may recover any amount from Wonolo or those businesses on the released claims. The release applies to the listed workers whether or not they filed a claim.Questions
What happened to Wonolo workers who did not file a claim by December 3, 2025?
Their shares did not go back to Wonolo. Under paragraph 53 of the consent decree, for each listed worker who did not submit a claim within 120 days, the settlement administrator was to deliver a check for that worker’s share to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, made payable to the worker or the Illinois Department of Labor. The decree does not describe how a worker can later collect one of those checks, and the settlement website’s claim form is no longer available.
How much did each Wonolo worker receive?
Each worker’s payment was a set percentage, listed in an exhibit to the decree, of the settlement account after administration costs, which were estimated at $24,344. Spread evenly across all 3,324 listed workers, the net fund would come to about $173 each, but that is only an average: actual shares varied with each worker’s assigned percentage, and payments were subject to tax withholding because the decree treats them as wages.
Can Wonolo workers covered by the decree still sue over the same wages?
The decree says no. It releases Wonolo and the businesses that used its platform from the overtime, minimum wage and four-hour pay claims covered by the Attorney General’s investigation for October 8, 2018 through October 23, 2023, and states that no worker listed in the decree may recover any amount from them on those claims. That release applies whether or not a worker filed a claim.
Are Wonolo workers in Illinois now classified as employees?
That is what the decree requires. By January 1, 2026, anyone performing temporary labor in Illinois through the Wonolo platform was to be classified as an employee of Frontline Work LLC, doing business as Grow2 by Wonolo, or another Wonolo affiliate, paid overtime for hours over 40 a week counted across all Wonolo work, and paid the Illinois four-hour minimum for shortened assignments. The decree runs for three years from August 5, 2025, and the Attorney General can audit compliance.
Sources
• Illinois Attorney General — Attorney General Raoul Recovers More Than $600,000 in Unpaid Overtime Wages for Misclassified Temporary Workers (July 2025)• Consent Decree and Agreed Order adopting it, People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Raoul v. Wonolo, Inc., No. 2025-CH-07609 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty., Ill., entered Aug. 5, 2025), posted on the settlement website’s Legal Documents page
• Official settlement website — Wonolo Settlement
