Offering Practical Guidance to Employers
Beginning June 1, 2026, Illinois employers with at least 16 or more employees will be required to provide unpaid parental leave to employees with a child who is a patient in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act (Act) into law on August 15, 2025.…
On August 1, 2025, Illinois enacted amendments to its Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act (“Act”), which will take effect on January 1, 2026.
Under the Act, Illinois employers must provide reasonable break time to employees who need to express breast milk for their nursing infant for one year after the child’s birth. That…
Beginning August 1, 2025, Illinois employers with at least 51 employees must provide certain covered employees with up to eight hours of paid leave per month, or up to 40 hours of paid leave per calendar year to perform military funeral honors details.
Funeral honors detail is an honor guard detail consisting of at least…
Cook County employers aren’t wrong if they’re feeling its “déjà vu all over again” when it comes to needing to review their paid leave policies. Recently approved amendments to the Final Interpretive and Procedural Rules governing the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance add new requirements to most employers with employees working in Cook County (outside…
Under the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance, most employers in Cook County, Illinois, must provide their employees in the county up to 40 hours of paid leave that can be used for any reason. The Cook County Commission on Human Rights issued Final Interpretive and Procedural Rules governing the Ordinance that provide employers much-needed clarification…
