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Heather Cherone | July 29, 2021 4:14 pm (WTTW News) Chicago hit two firms — including global snack food giant Mondelez International — with $935,000 in back pay and fines for running afoul of the city’s sick leave law, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed Thursday to step up efforts to protect workers. Thanks to our sponsors: Mondelez, which makes snacks including Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Trident gum, failed to provide paid sick leave to 465 employees from July 2017 through early 2020, officials said. As part of a settlement agreement with the city’s Office of Labor Standards, Mondel...

Chicago Amends Paid Sick Leave Ordinance to Expand Bases for Leave; Create an Action for Wage Theft Monday, July 26, 2021 The Chicago City Council amended its Paid Sick Leave Ordinance (“PSLO”) to clarify and expand the bases to take paid leave and to create a new action for wage theft. The wage theft provisions in the amended  PSLO became effective on July 5, 2021, and the paid sick leave amendments will take effect on August 1, 2021. Expanded Grounds for Taking Paid Sick Leave Since its enactment in 2017, Chicago’s PSLO has required Chicago employers to provide eligible e...

COVID-19 Most Courts Are Rejecting "All Risk" Insurance Policy Claims Related to COVID-19 "The overwhelming majority of courts have concluded that neither COVID-19 nor the governmental orders associated with it cause or constitute property loss or damage for purposes of insurance coverage." So concluded the district court in Out West Restaurant Gp., Inc. v. Affiliated FM Ins. Co., No. 20-cv-06786, 2021 WL 1056627 (N.D. Cal. March 19, 2021). The court continued, "These decisions have reasoned that the virus fails to cause physical alteration of property because temporary loss of use of propert...

On May 25, 2021, the Illinois legislature passed an amendment to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act that more than doubles the possible damages an employee can be awarded for...

On May 26, 2021, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced a series of ordinances (the “Ordinances”) which seek to implement new wage theft protections and provide certain employees with...