Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
Non-Profit Associations |
Business & Commerce
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60611
Recent News About Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
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Illinois' Workers' Compensation Committee has changed workers' comp rules, forcing employers to prove workers infected by COVID weren't infected at work.
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Already facing a surge of lawsuits under a state technology privacy law, business groups have expressed relief at Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s decision to veto a new state technology privacy law regulating how and when smartphone apps and the businesses that develop and deploy them must notify users their physical locations are being logged – a law the business groups say will only offer the same trial lawyers another avenue to sue them.
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Cook County communities are weighing their options to respond to actions by the Cook County Board to impose ordinances, similar to those approved earlier this year in Chicago, to mandate paid sick leave and boost the minimum wage. The suburban communities believe the state constitution gives them the power to opt out, without challenging the county's constitutional authority to pass the ordinances in the first place.
