On June 16, 2020, Governor Pritzker made November 3, 2020, election day, an official state holiday, adding it to the state holiday calendar. The same law also eased restrictions on voting by mail. As a result, all state offices and most municipal offices will be...
The Covid-19 pandemic and the sudden increase of the number of employees working at home puts even more pressure on your business to protect its proprietary, confidential and trade secret information. Some concerns you should address to protect confidential...
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat and other forms of “social media” not even conceived of yet are transforming the way parties communicate, and the law is slowly catching up to new technology. As a result, your business should continually monitor and consider how...
While spring cleaning, like New Year’s resolutions, seems dated, it does provide an opportunity for a business owner to step back and view the forest of his business rather than focusing on the trees. There are numerous legal aspects of your business that should be...
While all businesses hope to maintain loyal and honest employees, your relationship can change dramatically when an employee is solicited or hired by a competitor. With much of your business information stored, communicated or accessible remotely by electronic...
Recent case reports show that the law is catching up with our use of electronic communications and social media. These rulings generally favor making all such communications available for use in litigation and limiting user privacy protections, and reveal that user...
Many employers have been counseled by human resource professionals to create and provide employee handbooks. While the use of employee handbooks may provide substantial benefits for employers, they should also provide maximum flexibility for the employer in the...
Businesses need to recognize that today’s workforce is mobile and that competitors often seek to increase market share by hiring away employees that possess and will disclose confidential information to their new employer. This is particularly true when the economy...
