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Seeking Reasonable Accommodations: Know Whether your Requests are Reasonable

When your personal limits make it necessary for you to alter your workspace to make it possible to perform your job duties, you have the right to request reasonable accommodations for the workspace. T[...]

Fed’s Refusal To Collect EEO-1 Data Could Affect Chicago Pay Discrimination Cases

For the first time, acting Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Victoria Lipnic indicated that the agency might shelve the controversial EEO-1 pay data collection requirement. Ever since i[...]

Latest EEOC Numbers Are Mixed Bag For Chicago Discrimination Victims

In fiscal year 2017, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission obtained a near-record amount of money for job bias victims, but much of this money went to cases that had been stalled inside the EEOC[...]

Illinois is Not a Right-to-Work State. Know what That Means for You

Just over half of the states in this country have right-to-work laws in place. Illinois is not one of these states. This does not mean that you do not have the right to hold a job in Illinois – of c[...]

Why Women Do Not Report Sexual Harassment at Work

According to a recent article in The New York Times, a large number of women experience sexual harassment at work, but a large percentage fail to report it. Many of these women work in jobs that requi[...]

Employment Discrimination and “English Only” Rules

You might have heard about workplaces in the Chicago area or in other parts of the country that have talked about—or even have implemented—so-called “English Only” rules. For employees whose f[...]

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