By: James Panther After input from stakeholders including management, labor, insurers, medical professionals, attorneys and the DWD, Wisconsin has enacted 2025 Wisconsin Act 145, which introduces significant procedural and substantive updates to the Worker’s Compensation Act. The Act went into effect April 1, 2026, with specific applicability rules for pending claims. The most notable changes […]
By: Sally A. Piefer As indicated in our April 2024 and August 2024 E-Alerts, the FTC issued a Final Rule which would have made nearly all employment-related non-compete agreements unenforceable. The Final Rule was slated to go into effect in September 2024. In addition to making most non-competes illegal, the Final Rule required employers to […]
By: Sally A. Piefer / August 21, 2024 As we indicated in our April 2024 E-Alert, earlier this year the FTC issued a Final Rule which would have made nearly all non-compete agreements unenforceable. The Final Rule was slated to go into effect on September 4, 2024. In addition to making most non-competes illegal, the […]
By: Oyvind Wistrom Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a split in the circuits as to whether an employee is required to show a “significant” injury or harm in connection with a job transfer to meet the threshold for proving an adverse employment action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of […]
By Daniel Finerty There are several changes to Illinois that that, regardless of when the laws were passed, go into effect or have recently gone into effect in 2023, and place additional obligations on Illinois employers. Additional Paid Leave Obligations In addition to the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act that goes into effect […]
By Daniel Finerty Effective January 1, 2024, the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (Act) will grant most Illinois employees the right to earn up to 40 hours of paid leave annually, setting a minimum paid leave standard for all Illinois employers. According to Governor Pritzker’s press release, the Act will provide about 1.5 […]
By Sally A. Piefer Under Wisconsin law, an employee is disqualified from receiving benefits if the employee engages in misconduct or substantial fault. In 2013, the Wisconsin legislature changed the definition of misconduct. With the change, Wisconsin law explicitly recognized that an employee’s absenteeism/tardiness can constitute misconduct, and therefore disqualified an employee from receiving unemployment […]
February 27, 2023 By: Sally Piefer and Alexandra (Sasha) Chepov On January 10, 2023, both houses of the Illinois legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”), which requires private employers to provide a minimum of 40 hours of paid leave for employees to use for any reason. Governor Pritzker has indicated […]
January 9, 2023 By: Samantha J. Wood On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law an omnibus appropriations bill, which expands protections for pregnant and nursing employees under The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers (PUMP) Act. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act The PWFA, which goes […]
By Sally A. Piefer As you know, in early November, OSHA announced an emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) which affects employers with 100 or more employees. The ETS directs these covered employers to develop, implement, and enforce a written mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy—or to adopt a written policy requiring employees to either choose to be vaccinated or […]