Recent amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act became effective Sept. 29, 2019. Illinois employers are now prohibited from seeking or inquiring about a job applicant’s wage or salary history with any current or former...more
It is no secret that employees sometimes abuse benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Nor is it a secret that pitfalls abound for employers trying to limit such abuse while accommodating legitimate needs for...more
An employer who waits too long to object that a plaintiff failed to file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) before filing a lawsuit under Title VII may have waived that...more
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Employers can breathe a collective sigh of relief in light of the recent en banc holding of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation. In Kleber, the full 7th Circuit vacated a 2018 panel...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 21, 2018, decision in Epic Systems, Inc. v. Lewis handed a major victory to employers in holding that arbitration agreements containing class action waivers do not violate the National Labor...more
On April 26, 2018, in Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that job applicants can pursue age discrimination claims under a disparate impact theory and that a practice of excluding job...more
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in deciding Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College on April 4, 2017, became the first federal appellate court to conclude that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace...more
Employers who implement bonus programs to attract and retain key employees may be bound to the terms of those programs, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held. In Boswell v. Panera, LLC, the court affirmed that...more
A major California grower has asked the Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split by holding that evidence used to support class certification must be admissible. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is currently...more
Illinois’ stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has spawned a slew of recent single-plaintiff and class actions with large potential damages. Increasingly, employers use biometric data for timekeeping, security,...more
On Aug. 31, 2017, a federal court in Texas struck down the Obama-era Department of Labor rule that would have significantly expanded overtime eligibility by more than doubling the salary threshold under the Fair Labor...more
In a decision with important ramifications for temporary staffing agencies and employers that use their services, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does not entitle...more
Employers face numerous hurdles in implementing and enforcing noncompetition agreements. Now, the D.C. Circuit has added another: the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In Minteq Int’l Inc. v. NLRB, the influential appeals...more
On April 4, 2017, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal appellate court to conclude that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation is sex discrimination and violates Title VII of the Civil...more
Calculating the overtime due to a non-exempt employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act is easy — just multiply the employee’s hourly rate times 1.5 for each hour worked over 40 in a workweek. Right?
If only overtime...more
Several recent legal efforts have attempted to provide student-athletes with a piece of the financial pie resulting from events like Monday’s national championship game, which reportedly netted the NCAA around $470 million in...more
Certainly, the trend in employment law has been toward greater equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees. Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land due to the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer...more