New Illinois Law Mandates Paid Leave for Employees The Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers (PLFAW) Act was passed by the Illinois legislature in January and was signed into law by Governor Pritzker on March 13, 2023. Effective January 1, 2024, it will require nearly...
7th Circuit Clarifies That Discouraging Leave May Violate FMLA Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit (which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) wrestled with the question of whether an employer can violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)...
OOO: While You Were Out, Chicago Called to Tell You About New Anti-Harassment Obligations Summertime often means summer hours and time out of the office. As such, some employers may have missed that the City of Chicago recently amended its sexual harassment ordinance...
2022 Ushers in Sweeping Restrictions on Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreements For those employers looking to think, talk and worry about something besides COVID-19, we have just the topic: the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. In August 2021, Governor Pritzker...
