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EEOC increases filings for workplace harassment lawsuits, driven partially by #MeToo movement
The number of workplace harassment lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has spiked during the past four years, a Chicago lawyer says. -
Attorney: New Jersey law giving strikers access to unemployment pay not likely to spread to Illinois
New Jersey has enacted a new law allowing striking workers to collect unemployment benefits during a labor dispute. But an attorney monitoring such developments has heard no rumblings similar legislation is imminent in other states dominated by Democrats, such as Illinois. -
Amended Illinois law requires employers to grant new moms paid nursing breaks
Nursing mothers in Illinois will now be granted "reasonable" paid breaks in the workplace to nurse a baby or express milk for up to a year following the birth of a child, under a new law. -
SCOTUS employee arbitration decision could have profound effects on employment law, costly class actions
One of the most recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court could have the greatest impact on employment and class action law of any case in years.