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Illinois House Approves Workplace Protections For Cannabis Consumers
Is it High Time to Protect Cannabis Users?
On March 3rd, 2022, the Illinois House approved a bill containing workplace protections for employees who are legal cannabis consumers. This bill aims to ensure that workers are not fired for legally using cannabis during off hours.
Many employers still choose to drug test employees. Since Illinois legalized recreational marijuana use, employees have been …
- Aug 6 2019
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- Employee Pay and Compensation, Uncategorized
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Illinois Prohibits Asking Job Applicants About Pay History
More great news for workers in Illinois! Last week, Illinois passed legislation which prohibits employers from asking applicants about their pay history during the hiring process. The No Salary History law is an important step in closing the racial and gender wage gaps.
Before this law, employers could ask an applicant questions about their salary history. This helped to perpetuate lower …
- Apr 25 2016
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- Blog, Executive Counseling, Practical Tips
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Hidden Dangers in Your Employment Agreement
Why you should actually read your employment agreement before you sign!
We recently had an employment agreement related issue arise here at the firm that reminded me how unequal the bargaining power can be in employment relationships. A very large Bank here in Chicago slipped into an equity incentive agreement-a provision which altered the statute of limitations for our …
- Apr 4 2016
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- Blog, Legislative Advocacy, Sick Leave
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Paid Sick Leave Recommended in Chicago
City Task Force Recommends that Chicago Employers Adopt 5 Days of Paid Sick Leave Annually
Last February 2015, 82 percent of Chicago voters supported a non-binding city referendum to adopt paid sick leave for workers. After this, the City formed a task force, called the Working Families Task Force, consisting of 27 members representing business, government, and employee advocacy interests to …
- Mar 15 2016
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- Blog, Gender Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination
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Technically Speaking Men Just Don’t See the Gender Gap
Gender Gap Persists in the Tech Industry
Undoubtedly tech companies continue to make their mark as employment visionaries. In recent months, tech companies have chartered the way for creative, employee-favorable practices such as paid parental leave, unlimited vacation time, and open pay policies to name just a few commendable achievements. Yet, while these innovators stride ahead in many notable areas of …
- Mar 7 2016
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- Blog, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination
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EEOC Sues for Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Argues Sexual Orientation Discrimination Prohibited by Title VII
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) took a big step forward in protecting employees from sexual orientation discrimination and harassment in the workplace. In U.S. EEOC v. Scott Medical Health Center, P.C. and U.S. EEOC v. IFCO Systems North America, two cases filed last week in Pennsylvania and Maryland respectively, the …
- Feb 22 2016
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- Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Workplace Defamation, Libel, Slander and Invasion of Privacy
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EEOC Proposes Change to Increase Pay Transparency for Employers
On January 29, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced a major proposed regulation change that would increase pay transparency for employers with 100 or more employees and help fight pay inequities based on a person’s protected status.
The EEOC is the government agency responsible for enforcing the federal anti-discrimination laws, including the laws that prohibit discrimination based on …
- Oct 26 2015
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- Blog, Disability Benefits, FMLA and ERISA, Disability Discrimination and Failure to Accommodate, Employee Benefits, Family Medical Leave Act Discrimination, Uncategorized
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Illness in the Workplace: Part I
How to care for yourself without derailing your career
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the following is the first part of a three-part series regarding coping with a serious health condition, like cancer, in the workplace.
This first part deals with the immediate: getting time off work for treatment without losing your job.
Oftentimes illnesses …
- Mar 23 2015
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- Blog, Workplace Discrimination
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Millennials and the Workplace
A closer look at Millennials and the Workplace
Millennials, those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, have garnered special attention as a topic of study and discussion in that they are the largest and most dynamic cohort of the population since the Baby Boomers. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that this year, Millennials, who comprise about one-third of the population …
- Mar 18 2015
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- Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation
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The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II (A Quick Update)
The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II
Just wanted to post a quick update to our ongoing blog series addressing the ways in which employers and courts have been eating away at earned bonuses by reliance on language providing employers with absolute discretion in awarding incentive compensation.
Yesterday, in McCleary v. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 2015 Ill. App. (1st) 141287-U (Ill. App. 1st Dist. …
