Corporate Services, Inc. News (2022)

12/28/2022

2023 will bring new laws affecting Illinois employers. The Illinois legislature passed over 180 laws that take effect on January 1, 2023. This article will cover three of the ...more

12/28/2022

If an employer pays a woman less than it pays men, there is not always a legal violation. The key question: Are the woman and the higher-paid men essentially doing the same wo...more

12/27/2022

On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed and published a Memorandum of Understanding for Employment Tax Referrals...more

12/22/2022

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had released New Resources for Workers Impacted by Cancer....more

12/22/2022

Employers have a legitimate interest in preventing abuse of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). But of the tools at their disposal to fight that fight, is con...more

12/20/2022

Work-from-home arrangements were always a potential accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and they became generally more prominent when the now-linger...more

12/19/2022

Hiring challenges have been rampant this year, to say the least. Terms like quick quitting and quiet quitting paint a dim picture of retention rates. To make matters worse, ma...more

12/16/2022

After a year of consideration including amicus briefs on the matter, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) revived another Obama-era precedent in a decision issued Decemb...more

12/15/2022

In Thryv, Inc., the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) expanded the scope of "make-whole" remedies available to workers who allege unfair labor practices....more

12/15/2022

Employers who find themselves in the midst of a labor practices probe have the right to prepare to defend themselves, including by talking to their employees....more

12/13/2022

What is the potential cost to employers for labor law violations? Maybe more than you think, as a new decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) shows....more

12/12/2022

In a case of first impression for the court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Maine, et al) recently ruled that an insurer owes a fiduciary duty under the Empl...more

12/12/2022

Amidst the flurry of activity taking place before the end of the 117th U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives quietly passed the Speak Out Act on November 16, 2022, by an...more

12/06/2022

An employee who received workers' compensation benefits after getting hurt at work was not entitled to get additional compensation by suing a co-worker who allegedly caused hi...more

12/05/2022

Section 8 U.S.C. 1157 of the U.S. Code grants employment authorization for eligible individuals awarded refugee status, stating in part that these individuals "shall be eligib...more

11/17/2022

It has been a nagging and frustrating question for employers for decades now: When it comes to providing reasonable accommodation for employees with disabilities, exactly how ...more

11/15/2022

An employee who is fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine — without showing entitlement to a legitimate religious or disability-related exemption — is likely...more

05/02/2022

Many employers have been in the unfortunate position of suspecting an employee of abuse under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)....more

04/22/2022

When one employee was fired right before she had been planning to retire, she thought age discrimination had something to do with it. Her employer, however, said the worker ha...more

04/20/2022

The new requirements for employers to comply with the Illinois Equal Pay Act (the Act) Amendments took effect last month....more