New Illinois Employment Law: Restricting Use of Conviction Records | Gould & Ratner LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law SB1480, which amended the Illinois Human Rights Act (the Act) in a way that will significantly affect how employers deal with employee conviction records. What is Prohibited? Under the amended Act, which takes effect immediately, it is a “civil rights violation” for an employer to use a “conviction record” as a basis for adverse employment decisions, unless: There is a “substantial relationship” between one or more of the previous criminal offenses and the em...
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