Preview / Reference Manual
Latest Update: The most recently updated pages will be dated: 11/20. Check the "Current Contents" page in the Preface section to view all pages included in the most recent update to your book.
- PREFACE
Revised "Current Contents" page (vii).
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LEGAL
New Information: "Record Keeping"—New recording keeping requirements for COVID-19-related leaves of absence under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) (L-25).
Editorial revisions: (L-17; L-29, L-31).
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PAYROLL
No changes.
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SAFETY AND HEALTH
New Information: CRTA Amendment—The CRTA, the state’s recreational marijuana law, has been amended to clarify workplace drug testing issues and allows employers to conduct reasonable drug testing without liability (SH-15).
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Editorial revisions: (EO-1; EO-3).
New Information: "Illinois Workplace Transparency Act (WTA)"—The WTA provides that no employment contract, agreement, waiver, or other document may prohibit or restrict an applicant, employee, or former employee from reporting allegations of unlawful conduct to federal, state, or local officials (EO-4).
New Information: "IDHR Annual Disclosures Reporting"—The IDHR has issued FAQs to assist employers with the reporting and disclosure requirements, available online on the IDHR website (EO-12).
New Information: "Sexual Harassment Training"—Employers are required to provide sexual harassment prevention training by December 31, 2020 and annually thereafter; the IDHR has released a model sexual harassment prevention training program, available online in English or Spanish (EO-14).
New Information: “Titile VII: Sexual Orientation Discrimination Prohibited”—On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status violates federal law under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Bostock v. Clayton Cty) (EO-25).
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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
No changes.
- POLICIES AND PRACTICES
No changes.
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BENEFITS
No changes.
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COMPENSATION
New Information: “Unemployment Benefits”—Under IDES emergency rules, individuals temporarily laid off due to COVID-19 are eligible for additional or expanded unemployment benefits (C-21).
Editorial revisions: (C-40).
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STAFFING
No changes.
