Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to implement a new rule banning non-compete agreements for most U.S. workers. Specifically, the new rule prohibits employers from entering into or...more
4/25/2024
/ CEOs ,
COOs ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Popular ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Unfair Competition
Effective July 1, 2024, employers will need to comply with new paid leave requirements that apply to all Chicago employees (including those who work from home from Chicago). The Chicago City Council passed the Paid Leave and...more
4/11/2024
/ Accrual Requirements ,
City of Chicago ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Covered Employees ,
Local Ordinance ,
Notice Requirements ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Posting Requirements ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour
Each year, LP’s Employment & Executive Compensation Practice Group is pleased to provide a short checklist of steps that all companies should consider taking to measure their readiness for the coming year. We hope you find...more
2/1/2024
/ Bereavement Leave ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Independent Contractors ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Transparency ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Sick Leave ,
Temporary Employees ,
Workplace Safety ,
Written Notice
Chicago recently passed one of the most expansive paid time off laws in the country, with significant changes and severe penalties for violations. Passed by the Chicago City Council on November 9, 2023, the Paid Leave and...more
Nearly six years after previous attempts to issue guidance stalled, on September 29, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced long-awaited draft guidance on workplace harassment. The EEOC is acting under...more
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its decision in McLaren Macomb, overturning recent precedent and finding that giving an employee a severance agreement containing commonly used...more
On January 10, the Paid Leave for All Workers Act passed both houses of the Illinois legislature. Governor J.B. Pritzker says he will sign the bill and lauded the legislation. The new law would require nearly all Illinois...more
Each year, LP’s Employment & Executive Compensation Practice Group is pleased to provide a short checklist of steps that all companies should consider taking to measure their readiness for the coming year. We hope that you...more
1/27/2023
/ Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Bereavement Leave ,
Classification ,
Day of Rest Laws ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Equal Pay ,
Independent Contractors ,
Minimum Wage ,
Pay Transparency ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Retirement Plan ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule restricting the use of non-compete agreements as an “unfair method of competition” in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The proposed rule would...more
Layoffs often accompany corporate bankruptcy, and employers should be aware of the legal obligations that impact mass layoffs and plant closures. Most notably, the federal WARN Act requires employers to notify the workforce...more
In the first biometrics privacy class action to go to trial in Illinois, last week a jury handed down a $228 million judgment against BNSF Railway Co. In the case of Rogers v. BNSF Ry. Co. (N.D. Ill., No. 19-cv-03083), the...more
10/20/2022
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Class Action ,
Commercial Truck Drivers ,
Consent ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Retention ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Fingerprints
On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on October 13 to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor...more
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) continues to generate buzz and significant litigation. In 2020, ADP and Facebook each entered into multi-million dollar settlements to resolve claims that they violated the...more
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that would have required all employers with 100+ employees to mandate vaccination or testing, while allowing the Department of Health and...more
1/27/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Biden v Missouri ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Lack of Authority ,
National Federation of Independent Business v Department of Labor and OSHA ,
OSHA ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
On December 6, 2021, NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio announced that all private-sector workers in the city will be subject to the vaccine mandate, effective December 27. The following day, however, Judge Frank P. Nervo in the Supreme...more
12/9/2021
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appellate Courts ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Mandates ,
Mayor de Blasio ,
New York ,
NY Supreme Court ,
OSHA ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Religious Exemption ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing
Amendments to the Illinois Freedom to Work Act mean that for restrictive covenant agreements signed on or after January 1, 2022:
•Employees making $45k or less per year can’t be subject to non-solicits and employees...more
On Monday, October 25, 2021, the EEOC released much-awaited guidance on how employers should handle employee requests to be exempted from vaccination requirements because of religious beliefs. The new guidance is in the new...more
Likely, yes, but employers must consider accommodation requests.
While we have not received clear guidance from government authorities on administering or requiring the COVID-19 vaccine, we hope to receive such guidance...more
12/16/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations
Each year, LP’s Labor & Employment Practice Group is pleased to provide a short checklist of steps that all companies should consider taking to measure their readiness for the coming year. We hope that you find this 2015...more
1/29/2015
/ Ban the Box ,
Best Management Practices ,
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Discrimination ,
Email ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Harassment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
PDA ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Protected Class ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Union Elections
Each year, LP’s Labor & Employment Practice Group is pleased to provide a short checklist of steps that all companies should consider taking in order to measure their readiness for the coming year. We hope that you find this...more
Last Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an important decision in a case involving the enforceability of non-compete agreements....more
Developing new leaders—and giving them the roles and responsibility necessary to keep them happy and help the firm move forward— is critical to every accounting firm. However, the flip side of giving opportunities to the next...more
In the spirit of spring, the implementing regulations for the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) are somewhat sunnier than the proposed regulations initially presented by the EEOC in the fall of 2009....more