Chicago’s recent enactment of its Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (“Ordinance”) marks some of the country’s most progressive paid time off legislation and also imposes robust requirements upon Chicago...more
11/22/2023
/ Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Illinois ,
Labor Reform ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Sick Leave ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows Of Harvard College, Nos. 20-1199 & 21-707, 2023 WL 4239254 (U.S. June 29, 2023), outlawed race-based...more
7/13/2023
/ Affirmative Action ,
Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Discipline ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Protection ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina ,
Termination ,
Title VII
Recently, Illinois became the third state to pass a mandatory paid time off law called the “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” (the “Act”), which grants employees a minimum of 40 hours of paid time off per year for any reason....more
2/23/2023
/ Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Governor Pritzker ,
Illinois ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Paid Leave ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Regulatory Mandates ,
State Labor Laws ,
Timekeeping