First-generation students at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Engineering are getting firsthand advice on how to prepare for and navigate career fairs from dedicated tour guides. More than 42... Read more »
?Many employees deal with everyday struggles in the workplace. Those challenges can be more pronounced for women. Women have long experienced pregnancy discrimination, pay inequity, sexual harassment and a host of other... Read more »
?Overruling precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled in McLaren Macomb that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by including in a proposed severance agreement standard provisions... Read more »
?The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued its first significant decision interpreting the state’s employment discrimination law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), in three years. In a ruling that will likely be... Read more »
?The U.S. Senate on March 1 voted to overturn the month-old regulation that allows fiduciaries to consider environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors when choosing retirement investments. The resolution will head... Read more »
?States reported that 190,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Feb. 25, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level. The number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to... Read more »
?Back in 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana. As of today, 21 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and the... Read more »
?Technological advances create changes in companies—and jobs—of all kinds. The pace of change has become so rapid that it’s hard, if not impossible, for educational institutions to keep up. Even the most... Read more »
There’s a lot of truth in the Shakespeare quote “What’s past is prologue”—the idea that history can lay the groundwork for the present. Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more »
?Takeaway: A trial court lacks power to even consider the merits of an employer’s objections to an arbitration award where the employer failed to meet the statutory deadline for challenging the award.... Read more »
