By Christopher Hennessy and Jeremy Glenn ( December 18, 2018, 1:46 PM EST) -- Each New Year's Day, Illinois residents wake up to a host of new laws. Jan. 1, 2019, will be no different, and at least one of the new laws will directly impact Illinois employers. Under an amendment to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act,[1] Illinois employers (with the exception of the state or federal governments) must reimburse their employees for "all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee with the employee's scope of employment and directly related to services performed for the employer."[2] The statute defines "necessary expenditures" as "all reasonable expenditures or losses required of the employee in the discharge of employment duties and that inure to the primary benefit of the employer."[3]...