Illinois Employment Law Update

Learn about the top Illinois employment law issues impacting your organization today.

This topic will provide valuable insight in order to better manage and take control over difficult employment and labor issues impacting their Illinois operations. In addition to substantive law topics such as new pregnancy protections, criminal history inquiries, wage and hour updates, unfair competition developments and medical marijuana laws, critically vital procedural trends and government agency priorities will be examined as well. Not only will key legal issues in Illinois be identified but practical options in dealing with the plethora of issues surrounding the daily tasks of managing employees will be offered. Due to the speaker's active involvement with Illinois legislation, this topic will offer attendees an intimate guide to more effectively and creatively manage the workplace despite the ever changing substantive and procedural changes in the law.

Learning Objectives

- You will be able to recognize and better appreciate employment and labor government agency interpretations and priorities.

- You will be able to discuss key trends in the area of workplace violence and modify practices to proactively manage such matters.

- You will be able to identify and recognize problematic wage and hour issues and address methods to best avoid such issues.

- You will be able to review new policies and practices in compliance with new Illinois laws (i.e. Ban the Box, pregnancy accommodation and medical marijuana).