Illinois employers must be cognizant of new Illinois laws including bans on salary history inquiries, restrictions on artificial intelligence interview programs, mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, limitations on...more
8/1/2019
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The Florida legislature is considering a bill regulating the biometric data employers collect from their workforces. The new bill mirrors the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which has led to hundreds of...more
Many employers concerned about facility security or employees clocking in and out for each other have begun to utilize finger scan technology. Although that may have solved one problem, it may have created a much more serious...more
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that collective and class action waivers contained in arbitration agreements with employees are unenforceable and violate the National Labor Relations Act. Reaching the opposite...more
A recent U.S. Supreme Court case holding that representative evidence can be used in class/collective actions to the same extent that it could be used in an individual action may not have the broad application hoped for by...more
4/28/2016
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