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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Illinois lawmakers recently amended the Illinois Human Rights Act to include new rules on how employers may consider criminal convictions in making employment decisions. With this amendment, no Illinois employer may take adverse action in hiring or firing (or anything in between) based upon an applicant s or employee s conviction record unless the employer can show that:
There is a substantial relationship between the criminal offense and the employment sought or held;
or
Employment of the individual would involve an unreasonable risk to property or to the safety or welfare of specific individuals or the general public.
The Substantial Relationship Test
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The pace of COVID vaccinations continues to pick up momentum in 2021. As of mid-April, authorities report 825 million people have received vaccinations, with 192 million people in the U.S. alone getting at least their first dose.
As that number grows, discussion has turned to re-opening shuttered parts of the economy and the potential requirement to show proof of vaccination, a so-called âvaccination passport,â prior to entering a country.
At work, employers are having active discussions about their own vaccination policy for employees returning to in-person office work. Given that vaccinations are voluntary, can companies mandate that employees and customers be vaccinated in order to employ them or do business with them?
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At Vyond, we work to give everybody the power of video with our online animation studio. Our platform is popular among trainers and instructional designers who want to create impactful content, so we set ourselves to the task of researching the latest trends in training.
In February 2020 we surveyed more than 1,000 full-time employees about their work lives. As it turns out, February 2020 was a fascinating time to get baseline data.
To see how the COVID-19 pandemic was shaping these workplace concerns, we conducted subsequent surveys in July 2020 and February 2021. Just last month, we published our findings on how workplace communications have changed over the first year of the pandemic, tracking trends during twelve months of research.
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