As was widely reported, earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements with limited exceptions. The rule was to take effect on September 4, 2024, as we recently...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule banning nearly all post-employment non-compete clauses for workers nationwide (Rule). The Rule is currently set to take effect September 4, 2024....more
In Chamber of Commerce of United States v. NLRB, No. 23-cv-00553, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43016 (E.D. Tex. Mar. 8, 2024), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the National Labor Relations...more
On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council passed the Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (Ordinance). This new Ordinance replaces the prior Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. The Ordinance provides covered...more
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
5/23/2023
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Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Petition For Rehearing ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
School Districts ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
4/25/2023
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Failure to Accommodate ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Resignation ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
The Illinois legislature has been quite active, passing a number of bills which will affect Illinois workplaces. The following is a summary of recent legislation impacting Illinois employers in 2023. Amendment to Meal & Rest...more
The Illinois legislature has been quite active, passing a number of bills which will affect Illinois workplaces. The following is a summary of recent legislation impacting Illinois employers in 2022...more
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the requirements that must be met for an employee to identify a similarly situated comparator for purposes of a Title VII claim. Gamble v. FCA...more
5/25/2021
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Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Internal Investigations ,
Protected Class ,
Race Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Similarly Situated ,
Termination ,
Title VII
In a recent opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed that a multi-month leave of absence is not a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....more
The significant increase in COVID-19 cases nationwide has state and local governments implementing safety measures. In some instances, state and local governments are reinstating restrictions that were in place at the...more
12/1/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Emergency Response ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Non-Essential Businesses ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Quarantine ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
State and Local Government ,
Workplace Safety
On June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) protects employees from discrimination in the workplace...more
6/18/2020
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Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
EEOC v RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed $2.2 trillion stimulus package known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. The update below focuses on provisions in the CARES Act that are...more
On March 19, 2020, Senator Mitch McConnell introduced bill S. 3548 in the Senate, entitled the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. In its present form, the CARES Act would provide for, among other...more
On March 20, 2020, Governor Pritzker issued Executive Order 2020-10, a “Stay-At-Home” Order applicable to everyone in Illinois (the “Order”)....more
Valid arbitration agreements may prevent class notices from being sent to employees that would otherwise be putative class members in collective action lawsuits according to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Bigger v....more
On October 29, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in Shell v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company that the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) definition of “disability” is not met “where an employer...more
On June 12, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in Richardson v. Chicago Transit Authority that extreme obesity only qualifies as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if it was caused by an...more
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Fort Bend County v. Davis that Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement is a claims-processing requirement, not a jurisdictional requirement, which means...more
7/1/2019
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Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exhaustion Doctrine ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule
An Illinois Appellate Court recently answered a previously undecided question when it held in Gasic v. Marquette Management, Inc., that a corporation may be subject to liability under the Illinois Gender Violence Act (IGVA)....more
Recent federal court decisions serve as a timely reminder of an employer’s obligations under Title VII to protect employees from all unlawful harassment in the workplace, even if that harassment is perpetrated by someone...more