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On March 12, 2024 New York joined other states that protect employees’ and applicants’ privacy on social media when its own protections went into effect. These protections should be familiar to Midwest employers as they...

With the new year comes new challenges for Illinois employers, particularly those doing business in Cook County or the City of Chicago, where lawmakers enacted a new State law and two separate ordinances allowing workers in...

In March 2021, the Illinois Legislature passed amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act (the Act), 820 ILCS 112, making Illinois the first state to require the reporting of employee-level pay data. Beginning January 2023...

In 2021, I wrote a piece on the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (“CROWN”) Act, which seeks to eliminate race-based hair discrimination. At the time, 14 states had enacted such legislation. Today, the...

Since the writing of my latest blog post, Courts Side with the Vaccine, the U.S. Supreme Court has published two rulings on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In NFIB v. OSHA, 142 S. Ct. 661 (2022), the Court struck down a rule...