Federal agencies responsible for employment-related matters have been busy in recent weeks issuing guidance, updated workplace posters, and more. Let’s get caught up...more
6/8/2023
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
New Guidance ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”) ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Section 7 ,
Title VII
Illinois and other jurisdictions have adopted, or are considering, laws establishing parameters for employer use of AI during the hiring process.
The current attention being given to ChatGPT and other technologies using...more
4/19/2023
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Automation Systems ,
Bias ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Machine Learning ,
Pending Legislation ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Hearing ,
Screening Procedures
As employers make plans to modify pandemic-related work-from-home arrangements and require employees to come into the workplace, many have wrestled with “the vaccination status question.” Should employers ask employees...more
6/15/2021
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
GINA ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
Under amendments to the Illinois Business Corporation Act and the Illinois Equal Pay Act, certain corporations will be required, beginning in 2023 and continuing thereafter, to report data concerning the gender, race, and...more
4/12/2021
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Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Ethnicity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State Labor Laws
As states across the country see spikes in COVID-19 cases, employers continue to wrestle with how to handle “high risk” employees, i.e., employees who are at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Guidance from...more
8/3/2020
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
High Risk Covid Employees ,
NLRA ,
OSHA ,
State and Local Government ,
Workplace Safety
As employers prepare their “Return To Work” plans, clear communications to employees about protocols and expectations will be critically important. Recent updates to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...more
6/24/2020
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
Workplace Safety
The notion that U.S. employers would engage in broad-scale temperature screening of employees would have once been essentially unthinkable. But the realities of COVID-19 are changing the workplace, as least for the...more
In light of concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus in the workplace, employers are confronting important questions pertaining to the screening of employees for COVID-19 symptoms, including as it pertains to taking...more
This week the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision helpful to employers grappling with whether they must extend an employee’s time off following the expiration of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave as a...more