On September 29, 2017, a group of employees at Peacock Foods filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that the company’s collection of employee fingerprints for time-tracking purposes violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The Act, which was enacted in 2008, requires […]
H-1B premium processing restoration: After temporarily suspending premium processing on all H-1B petitions in early April 2017, USCIS has incrementally restored this benefit over the last 6 months to various application categories. On October 3, 2017, the agency announced that […]
Just like the leaves turning colors, you can count on a flurry of court filings from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) every September as the agency rushes to get cases on file before the end of its fiscal year, […]
Governor Rauner recently signed into law changes to the Illinois School Student Records Act. The changes in P.A. 100—532 create new procedures for responding to parents’ requests to inspect or copy their child’s permanent and temporary school records. These changes went […]
As we previously reported, on July 2015, the United States Supreme Court decided to hear an appeal of a case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding the legality of “fair share” fees for public employees. […]
Late last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the intention of the Department of Education to overhaul the way it addressed sexual misconduct on college and university campuses, as well as in K-12 schools. As we previously noted, DeVos’s recent […]
On September 15, the City of Chicago successfully obtained a preliminary injunction to enjoin U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions from leveraging federal funds against “sanctuary cities” to enforce compliance with new immigration policy conditions. The 7th Circuit’s ruling applies nationwide and […]
Recently, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the implementation of Seattle Ordinance 124968, which would allow drivers for ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft to form unions, while a suit over the new law […]
