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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
March 17, 2025 The Corporate Transparency Act: An Injunction Is Lifted, But Questions Remain
Category: Business, Contingency Planning, Corporate law, Corporate Transparency Act, Courts, For Employers, Government, Katie Rinkus, Legal Changes
February 28, 2025 Did Illinois Just Ban Non-Competes for Mental Health Providers? Not Quite.
Category: Amit Bindra, Angelia Salgado, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Healthcare, Human Resources, Illinois, Legal Changes, Mental Health, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Physician Employment, Restrictive covenant, Small Business, Strategic Planning
February 11, 2025 Employees in Illinois Now Have More Access to Their Personnel Files
Category: Compliance , Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Rebecca Baba
January 31, 2025 Trump Terminated a Top NLRB Official, Who Called the Move a “Blatant Violation” of Law. How Will It Affect Workers?
Category: Employment Law, For Employees, Government, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, NLRA, Strategic Planning, Termination, Wrongful Termination
January 31, 2025 Trump Has Purged Top EEOC Officials. What Does That Mean for Workers?
Category: Discrimination, Diversity, EEOC, Employment Law, For Employees, Government, Legal Changes, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Politics, Strategic Planning, Termination, Title VII, Workplace Discrimination, Wrongful Termination
January 27, 2025 Serving Justice Faster: A New Change in Summons Delivery
Category: Chicago, Christina Martinez, Government, Illinois, Legal Changes, Litigation
January 19, 2025 Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act Not So Transparent: What Recent Legal Challenges Mean for Your Business
Category: Business, Compliance , Contingency Planning, Corporate law, Corporate Transparency Act, Courts, For Employers, Government, Katie Rinkus, Legal Changes, Strategic Planning, Supreme Court
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
December 09, 2024 A Federal Texas Court Has Suspended the Corporate Transparency Act
Category: Business, Compliance , Corporate law, Corporate Transparency Act, Courts, For Employers, Government, Katie Rinkus, Legal Changes, LLC, Small Business, Strategic Planning
November 25, 2024 The NLRB Limits Non-Competes
Category: Amit Bindra, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, NLRA, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
July 25, 2024 The FTC and Non-Competes, Part 3: Federal Courts Make Different Rulings, Creating Confusion
Category: Amit Bindra, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
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
June 24, 2024 Minimum Wage Increases in July
Category: Chicago, Compliance , Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Minimum Wage, Wages
April 24, 2024 Did the FTC Just Ban Non-Compete Agreements? (Part 2)
Category: Amit Bindra, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
March 25, 2024 An Unclear Future for the Corporate Transparency Act, Recently Found Unconstitutional
Category: Business, Compliance , Corporate law, Corporate Transparency Act, Courts, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Katie Rinkus, Legal Changes
February 14, 2024 There’s a New Rule on Who Qualifies as an Independent Contractor
Category: Compliance , Contractor, Employment Law, FLSA, For Employers, Government, Handbook Compliance, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Poonam Lakhani
October 18, 2023 “You’ve Got Mail!” Parties May Now Be Served via Email, Text, and Social Media.
Category: Christina Martinez, Courts, Digital Workplace, Illinois, Legal Changes, Litigation
September 21, 2023 The Corporate Transparency Act: What All Businesses Need to Know
Category: Business, Compliance , Corporate law, Corporate Transparency Act, For Employers, Katie Rinkus, Legal Changes, Small Business
August 25, 2023 Minnesota Bans Non-Competes
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Restrictive covenant
June 30, 2023 How Will the Affirmative Action Ruling Impact Employment Law Claims?
Category: Discrimination, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Race, Supreme Court, Title VII, Workplace Discrimination
June 27, 2023 The Minimum Wage Rises in July
Category: For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Minimum Wage, Small Business, Wages
May 31, 2023 The Delaware Trilogy: Prominent Court Refuses to Enforce Non-Compete Clauses in Three Recent Decisions
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Courts, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant, Severance
May 29, 2023 New Freelancer Protections on the Horizon in Illinois
Category: Compensation, Contractor, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Illinois, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Remote Working, Small Business
February 28, 2023 Did the NLRB Just Ban Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Agreements?
Category: Compliance , Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, NLRA, Non-compete, Restrictive covenant
January 23, 2023 Paid Leave to Be Mandatory in Illinois
Category: Compensation, Compliance , Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Handbook Compliance, Human Resources, Illinois, Leave from work, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Timekeeping, Wages
January 16, 2023 Did the FTC Just Ban Non-Compete Agreements?
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation
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
December 16, 2022 New Year, New Laws: Legal Changes on the Horizon in Illinois
Category: Discrimination, Employment Law, Employment Laws, Equal Pay, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Leave from work, Legal Changes, Liability, Minimum Wage, Poonam Lakhani
October 25, 2022 The Brave New World of Employment Agreements: Ending Forced Arbitration
Category: #MeToo, Arbitration, Contract Law, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace
August 24, 2022 New Amendments to Colorado’s Non-Compete Law
Category: Amit Bindra, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation
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
April 20, 2022 New NLRB Rules Could Signal Increased Unionization
Category: Contingency Planning, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Nick Crawford, NLRA
March 29, 2022 The Impact of Restricting Mandatory Arbitration
Category: #MeToo, Arbitration, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace
January 31, 2022 Illinois Employment Law Changes in 2022
Category: AI , COVID-19, Disability, Employment Law, Equal Pay, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Minimum Wage, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, VESSA
January 24, 2022 OSHA’s Vaccine Mandate Struck Down by Supreme Court, Now Withdrawn
Category: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Employment Law, Legal Changes, OSHA, Poonam Lakhani, Supreme Court
November 23, 2021 2021 Non-Compete Recap: What Illinois Businesses Need to Know
Category: Amit Bindra, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
November 15, 2021 OSHA’s New Vaccine Rules Hang in the Balance, but Employers Should Still Develop a Plan
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, Compliance , Coronavirus, Courts, COVID-19, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, OSHA, Strategic Planning
September 28, 2021 Businesses Respond to the Texas Abortion Law
Category: Company Values, Employee Relations, Financial aid, Government, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes, Politics, Supreme Court, Women in the Workplace
September 28, 2021 What Does the Federal Vaccine Mandate Mean for Your Business?
Category: Accommodation, Christina Hynes Mesco, Compliance , Coronavirus, COVID-19, Employment Law, Exemptions, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, OSHA
August 19, 2021 New Changes to Non-Compete Law in D.C.
Category: Amit Bindra, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
July 26, 2021 Should We Pay Student Athletes?
Category: Compensation, Employment Law, Legal Changes, NCAA, Poonam Lakhani, Sports, Supreme Court, Wages
July 23, 2021 New “Just Cause” Laws Protect NYC Fast-Food Workers from Arbitrary Terminations. Could This Be the Beginning of a Trend?
Category: Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes, Workplace discipline, Wrongful Termination
July 16, 2021 What Does Biden’s Non-Compete Executive Order Do?
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Politics, Restrictive covenant
June 01, 2021 Illinois Passes Comprehensive, Bipartisan Non-Compete Legislation
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Employment Law, Firm News, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
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
April 09, 2021 New Prejudgment Interest Bill Awaits Signature
Category: Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes, Liability, Personal Injury
March 23, 2021 Employers Must Provide COBRA Subsidy Under the American Rescue Plan Act
Category: Business assistance, Compliance , Congress, COVID-19, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Healthcare, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes
January 14, 2021 Comprehensive, Bipartisan Non-Compete Legislation Introduced in the Illinois General Assembly
Category: Amit Bindra, Contract Law, Employment Law, Firm News, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant
August 17, 2020 Fighting Over Face Masks Is Now “Aggravated Battery” in Illinois
Category: Coronavirus, COVID-19, For Employers, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi
June 26, 2020 Chicago Minimum Wage Increase and Predictive Scheduling Ordinances Take Effect
Category: Employment Law, For Employers, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Minimum Wage, Scheduling, Wages
February 17, 2020 Is Your Business Ready for 2020’s Legal Changes?
Category: AI , Diversity, Employment Laws, Equal Pay, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Legal Changes, Minimum Wage, Overtime, Poonam Lakhani, Scheduling, Small Business, VESSA , Webinar, Workplace training
January 28, 2020 Top 5 Ways Employers Can Use Harassment Training to Improve Culture
Category: Communication, Company Values, Daily Routine, Diversity, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Growing Businesses, Handbook Compliance, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Liability, Positive Work Environment, Sexual Harassment Policies, Training, Workplace training
September 18, 2019 How Will Recreational Marijuana Impact Illinois Workplaces?
Category: Amit Bindra, Cannabis, For Employees, For Employers, Legal Changes, Liability, Medical Marijuana, Privacy
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

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