Oct 11, 2024 Illinois Adds Family Responsibilities as Protected Class under Illinois Human Rights Act By Douglas Oldham Illinois already covers a lengthy list of protected classes under the Illinois Human Rights Act. As of Jan. 1, 2025, that list will be a...
Oct 09, 2024 NLRB General Counsel Takes Aim at Non-Competes, 'Stay-or-Pay' Provisions By Douglas Oldham On October 7, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC-2501, attacking both non-compete...
Oct 02, 2024 Don't Bet Against Restrictive Covenants: Ex-DraftKings Exec Loses Non-compete Appeal By Christopher Rubey A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a former DraftKings executive's appeal of an injunction that severely restricted the type of...
Sep 30, 2024 FTC Does 180 and Withdraws From Pact With NLRB, DOL By David Pryzbylski Less than a month ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced it was entering into an agreement with the Federal Trade...
Sep 27, 2024 Need a Mulligan? Caddies Prevail in Wage Suit By Christopher Rubey Wage and hour suits are becoming increasingly common, including by caddies against their golf clubs. Most recently this was in Anderson...
Sep 12, 2024 Illinois Judge Dismisses Suit, Saying Reproductive Health Act Not a Burden For Religious Employers By Charity Seaborn In January 2023, Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Illinois Reproductive Health Act (RHA) into law, granting increased insurance coverage for...
Aug 23, 2024 Status Update: Challenges to the Department of Labor's Overtime Rule By Benjamin Perry In April 2024, the Department of Labor published its final rule regarding salary thresholds applicable to the most commonly used overtime...
Aug 21, 2024 FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Is Unenforceable? Blocked? Gone? By Emily Lodge Christopher Rubey Yesterday, a Texas federal judge issued a nationwide injunction preventing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its...
Aug 14, 2024 Statute of Limitations for Illinois Human Rights Act Claims More Than Doubled By Douglas Oldham These aren’t the easiest times to be an employer in Illinois. On Aug. 9, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an amendment to the Illinois Human...
Aug 12, 2024 Michigan's Revived Earned Sick Time Act: Does Your Leave Policy Comply? By Samantha Bartley Many employers have made the shift from traditional paid time off (PTO) policies allocating a specific number of days for vacation, sick...
Aug 06, 2024 Ohio Now Has Legal Recreational Marijuana: What Employers Need to Know By Douglas Oldham Effective Aug. 6, 2024, recreational marijuana is legal in Ohio and is being sold in 98 dispensaries around the state. While medical...
Aug 05, 2024 New Illinois Worker Freedom of Speech Act May Limit Employers’ Freedoms By Douglas Oldham On Aug. 1, 2024, the Illinois Worker Freedom of Speech Act was signed into law. Despite the new law’s name, the act, which goes into...
Jul 31, 2024 Proposed DOL Rule Would Require Disclosure of Union Campaign-Related Payments to Employees on Form LM-10 By Grant Pecor Aaron Vance Employers have long been required by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) to report the amount of money spent on the...
Jul 25, 2024 How to Navigate the Illinois Human Rights Act's Protection of Criminal Convictions By Douglas Oldham Illinois is one of only a few states that protects conviction records in its anti-discrimination statute. Specifically, the Illinois...
Jul 19, 2024 Practical Considerations for Employers in Light of Texas Ruling on FTC Non-compete Ban By Brittany McCants The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning non-competes is scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 4, 2024. Although practitioners...
Jul 17, 2024 Full Steam Ahead: NLRB Top Lawyer Signals Continued Focus On Injunction Actions By David Pryzbylski Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Starbucks v. McKinney clarifying the standards courts must use when evaluating...