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On July 1, 2024, three ordinances go into effect that will alter critical employment laws for Cook County and Chicago businesses. These three ordinances are: (1) the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance, (2) the One Fair Wage Ordinance, and (3) the Cook County’s Minimum Wage...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continued its jurisdictional expansion April 17 when it issued a consent order against BloomTech Inc., which does business as Bloom Institute of Technology, a for-profit college for computer programming. According to the consent order, the school "offers...

A bipartisan group of representatives, led by Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX), have introduced an updated version of the Dignity Act (H.R. 3599) to fix what they call the nation’s fractured immigration system. The authors of the bill call it the first serious...

Under the recent Supreme Court Ruling of Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, employees no longer need to suffer “significant” harm to state a claim of discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). Prior to the ruling, many lower courts had long required Title VII plaintiffs...

On May 1, the Council on Environmental Quality — a White House agency charged with implementing the National Environmental Policy Act — issued a new final rule purportedly aimed at streamlining NEPA reviews to speed up the construction of renewable energy and other electricity-related infrastructure...

As most New Jersey employers are already aware, since 2019, the State’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) prohibits employers from enforcing contract provisions that have the effect of preventing an employee or former employee from discussing any allegations of discrimination, harassment or...