Conservatory Worker’s Claim Fails to Uproot Employment-At-Will Doctrine Illinois, like almost every other state, adheres to the centuries-old doctrine of employment at will, which means that either an employer or an employee may terminate their relationship at...
Leave it to Costco to ensure even its litigation comes in bulk. Readers may recall that our March 2016 issue featured an article on an employer’s potential obligation to address nonemployee behavior to ensure an unruly customer or vendor isn’t creating a hostile work...
A little-known and rarely litigated provision in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment agencies from printing or publishing “any notice or advertisement” that indicates “any preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination, based on...
If middle child Jan Brady from the TV show the Brady Bunch were an HR manager, she’d scream “Retaliation, Retaliation, Retaliation!” instead of “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” Just as poor Jan couldn’t get a break from hearing about Marcia’s general excellence—her hair...
Upending three decades of precedent, the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on April 4 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The landmark ruling is the first federal...
