With significant developments in Illinois labor and employment laws over the past year, employers are now required to adjust their policies to ensure continued legal compliance. Illinois has limited the use of criminal convictions in hiring, mandated the release of employers’ demographic information and allowed employees to request EEO salary data from their employer. The state has also created new criteria for restrictive covenants, clarified issues related to damages under the Biometric Information Privacy Act, required the availability of paid leave for all employees and expanded the use of unpaid bereavement leave. The City of Chicago also has increased employee protections and updated sexual harassment laws to encourage employees to report incidents while placing more onus on employers to prevent harassment.
While employer obligations have significantly increased in some areas, the new regulations are easily navigable with proper preparation. Understanding the law is the first step to employer compliance and that’s why the Chicago Labor and Employment team at Fox Rothschild has prepared this series of alerts to bring employers up to speed:
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