Employers – the EEOC has issued an updated “Equal Employment is the Law” workplace poster to reflect the recent changes in Federal Labor laws.
Specifically, the new poster includes updated information on the ADA Amendments, some updated DOL language, and information on the new Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which goes into effect November 21.
The EEOC website has information [...]
Time to Update Your Poster
IL Appellate Court Rejects 30-Year-Old Noncompete Analysis
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Illinois has broken from the rest of the State and done away with a 30-year-old test used to analyze noncompete agreements.
A little background on noncompetes before we go any farther. A noncompete, of course, is an agreement betwen an employee and a company that the employee won’t compete directly with [...]
Charter Schools Outside of the IL Education Labor Board…for Now
In Illinois, as elsewhere, the state’s school districts have their own Labor Relations Acts and Boards. Illinois teachers’ unions are certified, and their claims of unfair labor practices are heard, by the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board (or IELRB).
It has been that way for many years, and while the body of decisions by the IELRB grows, it’s you’d [...]
Lessons in Trade Secrets from the NFL
The first day of law school, my Contracts professor told us that, by the time we graduated, everything we saw or did would trigger some legal concept or court case or statute in our brain. Someone asks to borrow your jacket? Bailment. Get an invoice from a mechanic? How many ways is it a deficient [...]
RIP, Les
I’ve broken the fourth wall of this blog once, going off topic when my son, Leo was born last year. I’m doing it again. Please indulge me.
Quick – who’s your favorite guitarist? Your favorite song? Turn on the radio and flip around the stations for 30 seconds. Chances are you will hear a guitar. But not [...]