Employees
Illinois Employer Obligations List
Even the smallest Illinois employers are faced with complying with a myriad of state and federal employment laws, including: No age, race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation or pregnancy discrimination (All) Providing equal employment opportunities without...
July Business Bytes
This month’s Business Bytes highlights privacy protection, pursuing insurance claims and businesses in distress. Privacy Protection. While Illinois may have been first to enact strict privacy protections, most states, the federal government and many countries...
June Business Bytes
This month’s Business Bytes highlights side hussles, employees’ social media and new class action targets. Don’t Let Your Side Hussle Sideline You. As one of the owners of a business, your side job or employment outside of that business could pose...
Illinois Personnel Records Review Act
Illinois law, 820 ILCS 40 et seq., obligates employers to timely provide on the demand of any employee or a former employee within one year of termination, an opportunity to review and obtain copies of any personnel file maintained on that employee relating to his...
Employment Best Practice and Protection
A recent Federal Appellate Court affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a demoted employee’s racial discrimination and retaliatory claims against her employer and provided guidance to employers on how to avoid or win such cases. Bragg v. Munster Medical...
Avoiding Workplace Harassment Suits
With the increased number of workplace harassment suits and administrative proceedings, as well as fines, penalties and verdicts, all employers need to be proactive to avoid, identify and minimize workplace harassment and avoid claims or suits being filed. Some steps...
October Business Bytes
Our Business Bytes highlights recent publications, issues, events and successes that we think our clients and friends should know about. We seek out, sort, prioritize and summarize them for your quick review. Please contact us if you have any questions, issues or...
Equal Pay Act
Almost all employers in Illinois are subject to the Illinois Equal Pay Act, and any employers subject to the U.S. Minimum Wage Act are also subject to the Federal Pay Act, that ensure women are paid equal to men for the same job, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act,...
Expungement of Marijuana Arrests/Convictions
The law legalizing marijuana also provided that those arrested, convicted or who plead guilty to minor marijuana possession offenses could have their criminal records expunged. Minor violations were to be expunged automatically by the state’s attorneys of each county,...
New Business Laws for 2022
Probably due to the pandemic, the Illinois Legislature passed few laws important to business in Illinois and effective January 1, 2022. They include: Increasing the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour; Making non-compete agreements generally not enforceable against...
