An employment lawyer can help with unpaid wage claims, often with better and faster results than by filing a claim with the IDOL or USDOL on your own. Some of the benefits to workers include: reduced waiting times, increased recovery of unpaid wages and the support of an advocate who knows if there are other violations by the employer and can help protect a worker from retaliation by the employer. For employers, hiring an attorney to help the company comply with wage laws can prevent negative PR and improve the bottom line.
Category Archives: Wage & Hour
New Federal Overtime Rules – Quick Reminder!
The Chicago Auto Trade Association published our article about new overtime rules, effective January 1, 2020 in the CATA Bulletin.
Breaking: New Federal Overtime Rules Take Effect January 1
This morning, September 24, 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published its final overtime rule. The final rule is effective January 1, 2020, giving employers about 100 days to review and adjust the pay of their exempt workforce to comply with the law.
EEOC Announces Plan To Suspend Pay Data Collection Rules
In a not-entirely surprising September 12, 2019 notice in the Federal Register, the EEOC announced that it plans on not renewing an Obama-era rule requiring employers to provide pay data as part of their annual employer information (EEO-1) report until after it assesses whether the two years’ worth of pay data a federal court ordered it to obtain under the rule is useful to its efforts to address gender pay gap.
New Illinois Donor Leave Law Sends A Message To Private Sector
With so many new major Illinois employment laws already enacted this year, even the most well-informed HR professionals would be forgiven if they felt unable to predict and plan for the next wave of workplace legislation likely to come down the pike before year’s end. Fortunately, Springfield lawmakers signaled their intentions on August 2, 2019 when Governor Pritzker signed into law the Illinois Donor Protection Act (IDPA).
Illinois Employers Must Make Radical Changes To Hiring Practices This Month
Many Illinois employers returning from summer holiday are facing a rude awakening as they discover that they now have less than a month – until September 29, 2019, to be precise – to revamp longstanding hiring practices or face sizable liability.
Autumn Deadlines Loom Under New Illinois Equal Pay Law
On July 31, 2019, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law HB834, amending the Illinois Equal Pay Act in ways that will fundamentally alter hiring practices across the Land of Lincoln. By doing so, Illinois became one of at least 13 states that now restrict employers’ ability to use pay history in hiring and compensation decisions, as part of the effort to chip away at the persistent national gender pay gap.
Chicago Passes Predictable Scheduling Law
The Chicago City Council has passed the “Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance.” The Ordinance replaces a similar predictable scheduling ordinance that had been proposed and tabled earlier this year. It aims to curtail employers’ use of so-called “standby time” work scheduling practices that often result in wide, unpredictable fluctuations in workers’ work hours and income from week to week.
Illinois #MeToo Bill Passes, Heads To Pritzker’s Desk To Become Law
While media coverage of the closing moments of the Spring legislative session focused on recreational marijuana, taxes and infrastructure, Illinois lawmakers quietly were leveraging the momentum created by the #MeToo moment to pass the Workplace Transparency Act.
Paid Family Leave Passes Illinois Senate, Mirrors Chicago And Cook County
Last week, the Illinois senate approved SBO471 calling for mandatory paid family leave benefits to workers in Illinois. The bill now advances to the Illinois House.