Insights

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...

Forms of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) have become commonplace for employers in recent years, particularly in the hiring process. From screening resumes to scheduling interviews, opportunities to automate human...

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...

On October 5, 2023, the United States Court for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held, in Meadows v. NCR Corp., Nos. 21-3309 & 22-1383, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 26442 (Oct. 5, 2023), that to the extent an employer adopts...

Section 1983 of Chapter 42 of the United States Code authorizes redress for violations of constitutional and statutory rights by people acting under the authority of a governmental entity. It is not in itself a source of...