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April 21, 2025 The New Do’s & Don’ts of DEI in the Workplace
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compliance , Diversity, EEOC, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Politics, Strategic Planning, Title VII, Workplace culture, Workplace Discrimination
March 30, 2025 What Do Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for DEI?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compliance , Discrimination, DOL, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Handbook Compliance, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Politics, Title VII, Workplace culture
December 23, 2024 Many New Employment Law Changes Are Coming to Illinois in 2025
Category: AI , Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Contingency Planning, Disability, Discrimination, DOL, Employment Law, Equal Pay, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Illinois, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Minimum Wage, Wages
June 26, 2024 The EEOC Endorses Independent Workplace Investigators and Culture Audits
Category: ADA, Anti-Discrimination, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Culture audits, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, sexual harassment, Title VII, Workplace investigations
August 10, 2023 Does the Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Affect Workplace Diversity? What Employers Need to Know.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Matt Tedeschi, Race, Supreme Court, Workplace culture
July 21, 2023 Did the Supreme Court Say Businesses Can Now Discriminate Against LGBT Customers—and Employees Too?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Religion, Supreme Court, Title VII, Workplace discipline
June 23, 2023 LGBT People Are Under Attack This Pride Month. Here Are 10 Things Employers Can Do to Support Us.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compensation, Digital Workplace, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, Equal Pay, For Employers, Human Resources, Leave from work, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Remote Working, Title VII, Wage Gap, Work from home, Workplace culture, Workplace Discrimination
April 12, 2023 What Do Employers Need to Know about Accommodating Hearing Disabilities?
Category: Accommodation, ADA, Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Disability, EEOC, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Lefkow-Hynes
January 11, 2023 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act Was Amended. What Does This Mean for You?
Category: Accommodation, Anti-Discrimination, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Feldman, Pregnancy, Women in the Workplace
January 04, 2023 Illinois Employers Must Start Reporting Pay Data
Category: Allison Wolcott, Anti-Discrimination, Compensation, Employment Law, Equal Pay, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Legal Changes
December 21, 2022 What Does the Speak Out Act Mean for Workplaces?
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, Employment Laws, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Advocacy, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Discrimination
October 24, 2022 Rock Your Crown! What Illinois Employers Should Know about Hair Discrimination
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Christina Martinez, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Workplace Discrimination
June 24, 2022 Chicago to Enforce Stronger Sexual Harassment Regulations
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Training, Women in the Workplace, Workplace training
June 17, 2022 Pride in the Workplace: A Conversation
Category: Allison Wolcott, Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, LGBTQ, Positive Work Environment, Title VII, Workplace culture
February 21, 2022 How to Advocate for Your Safety in the Workplace
Category: Accommodation, ADA, ADEA, Anti-Discrimination, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Discrimination, EEOC, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, NLRA, OSHA, Positive Work Environment, Title VII
June 29, 2021 3 Ways Working from Home Can Improve DEI Efforts
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Digital Workplace, Disability, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, Race, Religion, Title VII, Women in the Workplace, Work from home, Workplace culture
May 24, 2021 Illinois Employers Face New Requirements for EEO Compliance, Equal Pay, and Criminal Records
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Diversity, EEOC, Employment Law, Equal Pay, For Employers, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes
May 12, 2021 The Top Three Pitfalls of Hiring to Increase Diversity and How to Avoid Them
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, Strategic Planning
April 27, 2021 After the George Floyd Trial, Support Your Employees by Starting the Anti-Racist Conversation
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Positive Work Environment, Race, Workplace culture
February 25, 2021 Black History Month Calls Us to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Race, Workplace culture
October 16, 2020 Is Age Ignored in Corporate Diversity Initiatives?
Category: ADEA, Age , Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compliance , COVID-19, Diversity, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Liability, Workplace culture, Workplace training
September 25, 2020 What Can Employers Learn from Kroger’s Religious Accommodation Litigation?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, EEOC, Exemptions, Human Resources, Religion, Workplace culture, Workplace training
September 22, 2020 The Impact of the Notorious R.B.G. Will Be Felt for Years
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Courts, Diversity, Equal Pay, Gender Neutrality, Law school, Poonam Lakhani, Supreme Court, Wage Gap, Women in the Workplace
August 25, 2020 National Black Business Month is a Reminder—and a Call to Action
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Business assistance, Diversity, Growing Businesses, Poonam Lakhani
June 29, 2020 Somewhere Over the Rainbow? What the Bostock Decision Means for the LGBT Community.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Employment Law, Gender Neutrality, Government, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Supreme Court, Wrongful Termination
June 17, 2020 Being an Empathetic Team Leader in This Time of Crisis
Category: Amit Bindra, Anti-Discrimination, Communication, Company Values, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Positive Work Environment
November 22, 2019 Interviewing in the Age of Social Media
Category: Anti-Discrimination, For Employees, For Employers, NLRA, Poonam Lakhani, Privacy, Social Media, Social Media Fast
October 10, 2019 Can't We All Just Get Along?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Communication, Company Values, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Poonam Lakhani, Workplace Jerks, Workplace training
August 20, 2019 Let Them Eat Cake...But Serve It Themselves: One Woman's Fight against Gender Discrimination and Retaliation
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, Gender Neutrality, Remy Snead, Retaliation, Women in the Workplace
May 22, 2019 Google Employees "Sit In" to Protest Retaliation in Wake of Walkout
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Arbitration, Company Values, Diversity, Employee Relations, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Power of the Bystander, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment Policies, Social Media, Women in the Workplace, Wrongful Termination
November 12, 2018 The Walkout for Real Change: Google Employees Take a Step toward Solidarity and Shared Control
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Arbitration, Company Values, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employees, Human Resources, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Power of the Bystander, Sexual Harassment Policies, Social Media, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Jerks
August 30, 2018 Statewide Protections for All Workers Have Yet to Materialize
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Sexual Harassment Policies, Small Business, Workplace training
July 25, 2017 Illinois Discrimination Laws Protect Transgender Citizens
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, Human Resources, Illinois, LGBTQ
February 28, 2013 Job Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation
Category: Amit Bindra, Anti-Discrimination, For Employees, LGBTQ, Supreme Court, Title VII