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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...

As you will likely already be aware, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) becomes fully effective January 1, 2023, but that’s not the only US state with a privacy law coming into effect in 2023. Virginia’s Consumer...

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...

  Who inspires you and why? As is the case with most people from Puerto Rico, my biggest source of inspiration is the legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente. Clemente was not only a great player, but while alive, was...

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...