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Remember back in January when we announced the Weekly Employment Law Update?  And how I said I would update….weekly?  And for a good while I did that.  Then, however, work got in the way.  In March and April, our firm was busy in court with a variety of cases, including equal pay, age discrimination and unpaid wages claims.  As a …

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We’ve been busy lately working on several cases in litigation including a workplace defamation case in which we just received a favorable decision!  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that this weekly review missed a couple of weeks.  But let’s not dwell on that and instead let’s catchup!  

Happy Birthday FMLA!

First, on February 5 one of my favorite …

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A Week of Good News

Last week I wrote about employers doing dumb things.  This week we’re sharing only good news.

First, not all companies are bad.  Many do the right thing and we saw an example of that this week when Intel cut high-level management salaries instead of slashing its workforce.  The CEO is taking a 25% pay cut while other high-level …

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Employers Behaving Badly Edition

Although this is supposed to be a weekly review of workplace news, life got in the way last week and I didn’t get it done. But I am making amends by bringing you several stories about employers behaving very badly.

Lawyers behaving badly:  Unfortunately, some of the worst employer behavior seems to come out of law firms.  This …

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We’re coming in late with this Workplace Week in Review but only because there was so much news to sift through!

First, Happy Martin Luther King Day.  I hope everyone is at home, resting and reflecting on Dr. King’s teachings.  One of my favorites, which I try to remember during trying times, is in the image above.

If you read any news …

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Happy New Year!  All of us at at the Firm took a couple of weeks off to enjoy our families and the holiday season.   We hope you did as well.

This first week of the year was looking a little light in workplace news until the end of the week when two interesting pieces of news dropped.

First, on Thursday the …

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It’s beginning to look a lot like…..bad decisions

After three years, office holiday parties are back! In general, the office holiday party season is (NOT) the most wonderful time of the year for employment lawyers. A few years ago I wrote a cautionary blog about the ways in which office holiday parties can go awry.  In it, I included some real-life examples of …

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We at Case + Sedey love employment law, mainly because we love helping employees but also because the news that comes out of the workplace is always interesting and, oftentimes, hilariously unbelievable.  In a new (hopefully) weekly installment of the Workplace Week in Review we will highlight the best of that news.  This week, we learned how *not* to manage employees, …

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Despite what many employees think, you may not record workplace conversations.

Illinois is one of only eleven states that require two-party consent to the recording of a private conversation.  In the rest of the 39 states, only one party’s consent is needed.  And, despite what many think, workplace conversations are often “private conversations” for purposes of the law.

I wrote about the …

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In 2016, the Illinois legislature passed the Illinois Freedom to Work Act which banned non-competes, one type of restrictive covenants, for employees earning minimum wage or less.  If you recall, this Act was a direct response to the Jimmy John’s non-compete debacle.  In that instance, the Illinois Attorney General sued Jimmy Johns and the sandwich-maker relented.

While that Act was a good …

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