Originally posted on our Wage and Hour Insights Blog On June 11, 2019, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a new law that prohibits wage discrimination based upon sex and protects workers who decline to share their salary history with a prospective employer. The […]
Franczek Announces Hiring of Partner Tracey Truesdale
June 11, 2019
Franczek P.C. is pleased to announce the hiring of Tracey Truesdale as a partner in its labor & employment practice group. “Tracey is an excellent lawyer with a deep understanding of the needs of employers,” said managing partner Mike Warner.“She is a […]
This is our first in a series of alerts detailing key provisions of SB75, the anti-harassment legislation awaiting approval by Governor Pritzker. In this alert, we focus on Article I of SB75, which creates a new law entitled the Workplace Transparency […]
On June 1, 2019, the Illinois House voted to pass House Bill 2627, which would amend the Illinois School Code to require schools to notify parents and take reasonable steps to include parents or school mental health professionals when law enforcement […]
On June 5, the Governor signed Public Act 101-0010 which, among other things, deleted the TRS 3% excess salary cap and revived the 6% cap. (See our email alert that same day reporting on the history of the 3% legislation.) As a result of […]
2019 Class of LEADS Fellows Begins at Franczek
June 10, 2019
Franczek P.C. is pleased to welcome Amanda Mehr and Muaaz Maksud as its LEADS Fellows for Summer 2019. Franczek established its LEADS summer program for law students in 2011. LEADS stands for Legal Education for the Advancement of Diversity and […]
We previously reported, in 2016, that the Obama-era National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision in Columbia University that paved the way for graduate students to unionize at private higher education institutions. In the years since, under the current Republican-controlled Board, unions […]
Illinois Poised to Ban Salary History Inquiries
June 7, 2019
Originally posted on our Wage and Hour Insights Blog Among the bills awaiting signature by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is an amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 that would ban employers from asking job applicants for information about their wage, salary or benefits […]