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Recreational Marijuana: Updated Workplace Protections
The negotiated workplace protections protect employer’s drug-free, zero tolerance and drug testing policies.
No Cell Phones While Driving After July 1st
Starting July 1st, in Illinois, you will be ticketed for using your cell phones, for any reason, while driving.
Cannabis and Illinois Employers
Starting on January 1, 2020, Illinois residents 21 years old and over will be able to purchase 30 grams of marijuana for recreational use.
Department of Education Releases Guidance On Borrower Defense To Repayment Regulations
The 2016 Borrower Defense To Repayment Regulations (the “BDR Regulations”) were published in November 2016, but implementation was stayed until 2018.
Rathje Woodward Client Obtains TRO and Enforces Non-Compete Agreement
Recently, a large contractor retained Rathje Woodward to file a complaint and seek a temporary restraining order following the resignation of a key employee who joined a competitor.
Intern Compensation
As summer approaches, recent changes to the tests as to whether Fair Labor Standards Act (wages/overtime) applies to interns are worth revisiting. The Department of Labor examines the “economic reality” of the relationship and who derives the primary benefit from that relationship to determine whether the intern should be paid as an employee.
Rathje Woodward Wins $2 Million Summary Judgment For Insurance Policyholder
The firm secured summary judgment worth over $2 million in Owners Ins. Co. v. Seamless Gutter Corp., an insurance coverage dispute pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
DOL Proposes New Salary Threshold for FSLA Overtime Exemptions
On March 7, 2019, The Department of Labor released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that focuses on updating the minimum salary requirement for the FLSA white collar exemptions.
Employment Law Update 2019
Rathje Woodward advises clients on a broad range of employment and labor matters, including compliance, policies and procedures, internal investigations, administrative proceedings, collective bargaining negotiations and disputes, union avoidance policies and litigation defense.
Hot LEGAL Topics Affecting Community Associations
On April 12, 2019, Scott Pointner and James Arrigo, attorneys in Rathje Woodward’s condominium/homeowner association practice group, will be speakers at the Annual Legal Forum sponsored by the Community Association Institute (CAI) at the Abbington Banquet Hall in Wheaton, IL
Rathje Woodward Sponsors and Facilitates Value Driven Leadership Executive Roundtable
Rathje Woodward LLC with Choose DuPage and Benedictine University’s Center for Values-Driven Leadership, launched a three-part series of interactive sessions for senior executives, designed to explore how leveraging positive, people-focused cultures enable financial and strategic success.
Rathje Woodward Attorneys Recognized as Super Lawyers – 2019
Rathje Woodward LLC is proud to announce that Super Lawyers has named attorneys Timothy D. Elliott, Emily A. Shupe, and Scott E. Pointner to its lists of outstanding Illinois lawyers for 2019.