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  • Mar 18 2022
  • Jamie DeWitt
  • Cannabis
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Workplace Protections For Cannabis Consumers

Illinois House Approves Workplace Protections For Cannabis Consumers

Jamie DeWitt March 18, 2022 Cannabis 0

 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 …

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  • Aug 6 2019
  • Becca Nesslar
  • Employee Pay and Compensation, Uncategorized
  • 0
wage gap

Illinois Prohibits Asking Job Applicants About Pay History

Becca Nesslar August 6, 2019 Employee Pay and Compensation, Uncategorized 0

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 …

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  • Apr 25 2016
  • Kristin Case
  • Blog, Executive Counseling, Practical Tips
  • 0
Biden to Sign Law

Hidden Dangers in Your Employment Agreement

Kristin Case April 25, 2016 Blog, Executive Counseling, Practical Tips 0

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 …

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  • Apr 4 2016
  • Kendra Kutko
  • Blog, Legislative Advocacy, Sick Leave
  • 0
Coronavirus

Paid Sick Leave Recommended in Chicago

Kendra Kutko April 4, 2016 Blog, Legislative Advocacy, Sick Leave 0

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 …

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  • Mar 15 2016
  • Kendra Kutko
  • Blog, Gender Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination
  • 0
gender gap technology

Technically Speaking Men Just Don’t See the Gender Gap

Kendra Kutko March 15, 2016 Blog, Gender Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination 0

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 …

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  • Mar 7 2016
  • Kate Sedey
  • Blog, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination
  • 0
Sexual Orientation Circuit Split

EEOC Sues for Sexual Orientation Discrimination

Kate Sedey March 7, 2016 Blog, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination 0

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 …

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  • Feb 22 2016
  • Kendra Kutko
  • Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Workplace Defamation, Libel, Slander and Invasion of Privacy
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EEOC to address pay transparency

EEOC Proposes Change to Increase Pay Transparency for Employers

Kendra Kutko February 22, 2016 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Workplace Defamation, Libel, Slander and Invasion of Privacy 0

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 …

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  • Oct 26 2015
  • Kristin Case
  • Blog, Disability Benefits, FMLA and ERISA, Disability Discrimination and Failure to Accommodate, Employee Benefits, Family Medical Leave Act Discrimination, Uncategorized
  • 0

Illness in the Workplace: Part I

Kristin Case October 26, 2015 Blog, Disability Benefits, FMLA and ERISA, Disability Discrimination and Failure to Accommodate, Employee Benefits, Family Medical Leave Act Discrimination, Uncategorized 0

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 …

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  • Mar 23 2015
  • Kendra Kutko
  • Blog, Workplace Discrimination
  • 0
Data Theft

Millennials and the Workplace

Kendra Kutko March 23, 2015 Blog, Workplace Discrimination 0

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 …

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  • Mar 18 2015
  • Kate Sedey
  • Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation
  • 0
wage gap

The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II (A Quick Update)

Kate Sedey March 18, 2015 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 0

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. …

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