Article provided by Laura Zaroski, JD and Hank Stickley, RPLU of Socius Insurance Services....
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How can you protect your data without violating employee rights?Part IICyber security is a hot topic right now. Everyone wants to remind you that your data is at risk and that more data breaches come from employee activity than any other area. From CTO’s to controllers, companies are writing strict employee policies trying to protect...
Did you Ban the Box? Still asking applicants about their criminal background? Be sure you comply with Illinois and Chicago’s updated “Ban the Box” laws.The Illinois Job Opportunities for Qualified Applicants Act, went into effect on January 1, 2015 and prohibits private employers with 15 or more employees, from asking about, requiring disclosure of, or considerin...
Imagine you are an employer and were just served a complaint by an ex-employee under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). You review your HR files, his prior emails and interview his co-workers and discover, after the fact, this same ex-employee engaged in various form of employee misconduct that, that had you known about this m...
In a rebuke to the United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”), a federal judge struck down October 2013 regulations that expanded over-time and minimum wage to all home-care workers as over-broadly and an “unprecedented” seizure of power Congress never intended to give to the DOL. This regulation would have guaranteed a national baseline ...