Join our interdisciplinary panel of Amundsen Davis attorneys for a half-day livestream seminar highlighting the key issues and emerging trends impacting the construction industry. With an eye toward 2025 and beyond, sessions...more
1/9/2025
/ Best Practices ,
Boycotts ,
Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Litigation ,
Construction Project ,
Construction Workers ,
General Contractors ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
OSHA ,
PFAS ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Right to Picket ,
Risk Management ,
Strike ,
Subcontractors ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
On Friday, December 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in NLRB v. Starbucks Corp. vacated part of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order on the grounds that it exceeded its authority in ordering...more
1/7/2025
/ Appellate Courts ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Compensatory Damages ,
Damages ,
Financial Harm ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Lost Wages ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Reimbursements ,
Reinstatement ,
Starbucks ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Vacated ,
Wrongful Termination
“Harris Walz, Obviously.” “Trump 2024 – Take America Back.” These words are on signs that pepper front lawns and store fronts across the country. Consider what compels someone to make their stance so public. It’s because...more
Proper and meaningful employee onboarding is essential. Learn best practices for effective hiring and initial onboarding to help diminish problems down the road. Interviewing, background and reference checks, as well as...more
As legalization of cannabis has spread, profits have grown in the 25 states that allow for the retail sale of cannabis for recreational use, and labor unions have found great opportunity for getting a lift from the cannabis...more
The recently overhauled paid leave ordinances in Illinois include: Illinois Paid Leave For All Workers Act (effective January 1, 2024), Cook County Paid Leave (effective February 1, 2024) and the City of Chicago Paid Leave...more
2/27/2024
/ Best Practices ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Illinois ,
Local Ordinance ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Remote Working ,
Sick Leave ,
Termination Payments ,
Time-Off Policies ,
Wage and Hour ,
Waiting Periods ,
Webinars
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule on the standard for determining who is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Final Rule is set to...more
1/17/2024
/ Compensation & Benefits ,
Congressional Review Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Definition ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Final Rules ,
Independent Contractors ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Misclassification ,
Over-Time ,
Totality of Circumstances Test ,
Wage and Hour
With the January 1, 2024, Leave of Absence Request form and peneffective date of the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (IPLAWA) quickly approaching, employers need to ensure they are analyzing their existing paid leave...more
This summer seemed to fly by as quickly as the Illinois Legislature and Governor J.B. Pritzker enacted a dizzying slew of more new employment laws between the months of June and August. These changes are sweeping and require...more
9/1/2023
/ Bereavement Leave ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Gender-Based Violence ,
Governor Pritzker ,
Illinois ,
Independent Contractors ,
Job Ads ,
Job Promotions ,
Paid Leave ,
Personnel Records ,
State Labor Laws ,
Strike ,
Temporary Employees ,
Unions ,
Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) ,
Wage and Hour
Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management Certification Training Series -
Develop your managers into the professional leaders who create the culture that propels your business. Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management...more
8/29/2023
/ Background Checks ,
Best Practices ,
Certifications ,
Conflict Resolution ,
Documentation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Job Descriptions ,
Leadership ,
Managers ,
Performance Improvement Plans ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Reference Checks ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Training ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication ,
Workplace Investigations
Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management Certification Training Series -
Develop your managers into the professional leaders who create the culture that propels your business. Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management...more
8/29/2023
/ Background Checks ,
Best Practices ,
Certifications ,
Conflict Resolution ,
Documentation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Job Descriptions ,
Leadership ,
Managers ,
Performance Improvement Plans ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Reference Checks ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Training ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication ,
Workplace Investigations
Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management Certification Training Series -
Develop your managers into the professional leaders who create the culture that propels your business. Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management...more
8/29/2023
/ Background Checks ,
Best Practices ,
Certifications ,
Conflict Resolution ,
Documentation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Job Descriptions ,
Leadership ,
Managers ,
Performance Improvement Plans ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Reference Checks ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Training ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication ,
Workplace Investigations
Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management Certification Training Series -
Develop your managers into the professional leaders who create the culture that propels your business. Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management...more
8/29/2023
/ Background Checks ,
Best Practices ,
Certifications ,
Conflict Resolution ,
Documentation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Job Descriptions ,
Leadership ,
Managers ,
Performance Improvement Plans ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Reference Checks ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Training ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication ,
Workplace Investigations
Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management Certification Training Series -
Develop your managers into the professional leaders who create the culture that propels your business. Amundsen Davis’s Leadership & Management...more
8/29/2023
/ Background Checks ,
Best Practices ,
Certifications ,
Conflict Resolution ,
Documentation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Job Descriptions ,
Leadership ,
Managers ,
Performance Improvement Plans ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Reference Checks ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Training ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication ,
Workplace Investigations
Join us Wednesday, September 13 at noon for our Ninth Annual Labor & Employment Fall Seminar. This year’s event will be livestreamed from our Chicago office. Our attorneys will discuss the latest employment law updates...more
8/2/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Best Practices ,
Bias ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Diversity ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Genetic Testing ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Paid Leave ,
Pay Transparency ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
The Chicago Human Rights Ordinance makes it a civil rights violation “[f]or any employer, employee, agent of any employer, employment agency or labor organization to engage in sexual harassment.” Municipal Code of Chicago,...more
Dust off your severance agreement template, again. This applies to all private employers – whether you have a unionized workforce or not.
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a decision in McLaren...more
While we continue to absorb the impact of the National Labor Relations Board’s recent expansion of its authority to include awards for consequential damages in unfair labor practice (ULP) cases, there are other significant...more
In today’s world, management and human resource personnel must be on their A-game in all things relating to employees. With the new phenomenon upon us and continuing to “go viral,” management should have the latest tools to...more
Recently, the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision that expanded protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to people with gender dysphoria....more
A discussed in a previous article, on September 8, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum to all NLRB Regional Directors notifying them (and the rest of us) of her...more
Board diversity requirements have hit the headlines again due to a recent ruling by a California Superior Court judge who struck down a 2020 California law (AB 979) that required companies headquartered in California to have...more
It depends where you stand. Here are some of the latest updates –
California: Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that restores the expired supplemental paid leave requirements that he signed into law back...more
On June 25, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed into law additional amendments to the IL Equal Pay Act of 2003.
March 2021 Amendments (Recap)-
As outlined in our March 23, 2021 blog article, Will Employers Have to Give 1%...more
For health care workers, the issues of staffing, wages and benefits are typically what unions have focused on in their organizing campaigns. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, these issues are heightened with the...more