Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Commission generates case law that is valid in Illinois. This decisions, and the case law derived from them, serve as initial points of reference for questions of employer liability, disability diagnoses and treatments, and the extent to which medical expenses can be charged to an employer and an employer's workers' compensation insurer. [1]
The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that is responsible for the administration and enforcement of more than 20 labor and safety laws. [4] Its director is Jane Flanagan, who was appointed in by Governor J. B. Pritzker. [5]
(The Center Square) – Illinois’ pension debt compared to personal income is the second worst in the nation. Fitch Ratings reviewed pension funds for public employee retirees from every state ...
Before January 1, 2021, the Illinois Freedom to Work Act prohibited employers from entering into a covenant not to compete with Illinois employees earning the greater of (1) the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by the applicable federal, State, or local minimum wage law or (2) $13.00 per hour. [32] [33]
Behind only Connecticut, Fitch pegs Illinois’ unfunded pension liability and other post employment benefits at $206.5 billion, taking up 22.8% of the state’s personal income. Tool company to ...
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
Employment practices liability is an area of United States labor law that deals with wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, breach of contract, emotional distress, and wage and hour law violations. It may be categorized as a form of professional liability.
Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". [3] Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor ...