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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Illinois’s Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed Senate Bill 1480 into law, establishing new employer certification and reporting requirements, making sweeping changes to Illinois’s anti-retaliation law, and curtailing employers’ uses of criminal convictions in employment decisions. Effective immediately upon signing on March 23, 2021, the law impacts all employers doing business in Illinois. A summary of the amendments to the ...

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Illinois’s Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed Senate Bill 1480 into law, establishing new employer certification and reporting requirements, making sweeping changes to Illinois’s anti-retaliation law, and curtailing employers’ uses of criminal convictions in employment decisions.  Effective immediately upon signing on March 23, 2021, the law impacts all employers doing business in Illinois.  A summary of the amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Ac...

Employee Sues Amazon for Race and Gender-Based Discrimination March 2, 2021 Charlotte Newman filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com, Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc. (collectively, Amazon), and three individual employees for discrimination in the corporate workplace. The 63-page civil complaint detailed Newman’s experience at Amazon as well as published reports and statistics that support her contention that Amazon illegally discriminates against minorities, and Black women like the plaintiff in p...