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...
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The New Year Brings Paid Time For (Almost) All Employees in Illinois
January 19, 2024
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...
Guidance for Reacting to the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 20, 2020
Issue 1: Health and Safety The situation is rapidly evolving, and employers must continue to frequently monitor guidance from the Center for Disease Control and local public health organizations. The CDC has provided...
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
August 12, 2019
I started out my professional career in the field of Human Resources, so it is fitting that the winding path through law school and the practice of law has led me to my current role as an attorney and strategic partner to...
Pay Equity Trends and Best Practices
April 17, 2019
April 2 of each year is known as “Equal Pay Day”. The purpose of Equal Pay Day is to shed light on the fact that the average woman must work all of the previous year and through April 2 of the next year in order to earn...