For Illinois employers, the new year brings a variety of new paid leave laws, the most recent being the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance passed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners... Read more »
Executive Summary: In January 2023, the Illinois Legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (PLAW Act). The PLAW Act specifically exempted the City of Chicago and certain municipalities in Cook... Read more »
Executive Summary: In response to the State of Illinois enacting the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (“PLAW Act”), which requires 40 hours of paid leave to be provided to employees that... Read more »
On December 14, 2023, the Cook County Board of Commissioners (“Board”) passed the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which converts the pre-existing Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance into an... Read more »
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to put on hold a new Illinois law prohibiting the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, refusing an emergency appeal from a... Read more »
The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban... Read more »
Illinois officials are questioning whether the state’s roughly 1,000 judges should be required to undergo the same training to better respond to rape survivors that illinois police officers have participated in 2018,... Read more »
An Illinois firearms retailer and a national gun rights group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time to block a Democratic-backed state ban on assault-style rifles and large... Read more »
On November 3, 2023, the Illinois Department of Labor (“IDOL”) published proposed rules implementing the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (“PLAWA”). While the proposed rules will not be finalized until... Read more »
On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold, executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism... Read more »