After much anticipation, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled its Final Rule on April 23, 2024, increasing the salary that an employee must earn in order to qualify for the executive, administrative, professional and...more
On December 13, 2023, the Chicago City Council voted to delay the implementation of, and amended, the previously approved Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the “Amendment”). We wrote about the...more
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for employees to obtain religious accommodations more easily from their employers – and made it more difficult for an employer to establish that a religious accommodation...more
Governor J.B. Pritzker approved sweeping changes to Illinois anti-discrimination laws on August 9, 2019, building on the momentum of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements and following similar trends in other states. The...more
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