In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the employer and clarified that “interfering, restraining, and denying are distinct ways of violating the FMLA.”
By David J. Morris Updated 12/11/2023 Enacted into federal law in January of 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA“) established information reporting requirements for reporting companies. Reporting companies include (1) corporations, limited liability companies (“LLC’s“) or other entities created through the filing of […]
Image Source – Shutterstock While M&A brokers previously faced uncertainty with respect to federal broker-dealer registration requirements, a new statute provides a clear and unambiguous exemption based on specified, limited activities. M&A brokers received an unanticipated but welcome surprise in legislation recently adopted […]
In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the employer and clarified that “interfering, restraining, and denying are distinct ways of violating the 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 to expand the definition of “sexual harassment,” to impose new policy and training requirements, to impose additional record keeping requirements, and to increase monetary penalties.
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 signed into law an amendment to the Act that imposes new restrictions on non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. Here’s what the Omicron variant and vaccine mandates caused you to miss.
With so much attention on COVID-19 and its impact on workplace issues, employers may have lost track of some important changes affecting Illinois employers in 2020. Some of these changes took effect on July 1.
On August 26, 2020 the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to the definition of an “accredited investor” as defined by Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”).
State Bias Law Changes Don’t Stop for Pandemic
With so much attention on COVID-19 and its impact on workplace issues, employers may have lost track of some important changes affecting Illinois employers in 2020. Some of these changes took effect on July 1.
In the past few months, businesses have been thrust into a maelstrom of new historic challenges: a virulent pandemic of uncertain duration, depressed demand for products and services, social unrest and even outright inability to open or conduct business due to policies intended to slow the spread of the virus. For some firms, emergency government loan assistance has provided only temporary relief.