by Stuart R. Buttrick, Taylor L. Lindauer, Lindsey M. Hogan, Alexander E. Preller, Stacey Smiricky and Aaron T. Vance, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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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Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath is an international law firm headquartered in the United States with locations from coast to coast and in the United Kingdom and China. They have a broad range of practice areas and support various industries such as financial services, technology and health and life sciences.
Faegre Drinker has an extensive labor and employment practice that helps employers manage the employment relationship and comply with labor and employment laws and regulations. Their areas of expertise include HR and compliance, litigation, immigration and global mobility, labor relations and workforce safety.