Employee discipline: Illinois

Summary

This guide provides an overview of laws relevant to employee discipline in Illinois, including specific requirements for investigations; employee privacy and confidentiality protections; and handling disciplinary situations involving protected leaves of absence and protected activities. It also covers potential claims such as defamation.

In this guide, learn about:

• The process of discipline
  • Communicating expectations for workplace conduct
  • When to investigate employee behavior in advance of discipline
  • Privacy concerns in investigations
• Polygraph or lie detector tests
• Restrictions on recording conversations
• Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act
• Specific discipline situations
  • Attendance
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Misappropriation of trade secrets
  • Employee inventions
  • Discipline considerations
• Treatment of employees who have engaged in protected activities
• Discipline regarding guns in the workplace
• Defamation avoidance
• Confidentiality of disciplinary communications
• False imprisonment
• Freelance Worker Protection Act
• Health Care Right of Conscience Act
• Disciplining employees with drug and alcohol addictions
  • Marijuana
• Local requirements
  • Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance
  • Chicago Hotel Worker Harassment Ordinance
  • Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance
  • Chicago Worker Protections
  • Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance
  • Evanston Fair Workweek Ordinance
• Future developments
  • Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave

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