Illinois Employers Now Required to Provide Anti-Harassment Training
By Christina Hynes Mesco
Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on,
May 2020
The Workplace Transparency Act, signed into law in August 2019, requires that Illinois employers, regardless of size, provide annual sexual harassment prevention training to all employees.
Workplace Harassment Reforms in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement
By Mackenzie E. Pickering
Women and the Law,
May 2020
Since the #MeToo movement exploded into the public consciousness in late 2017, state legislators from across the country have introduced approximately 200 bills aimed at strengthening protections against workplace harassment and 15 states including Illinois have passed new protections.
Annual Sexual Harassment Training Requirement
Elder Law,
February 2020
As part of the Illinois Human Rights Act, all employers in Illinois will now be required to provide annual anti-sexual harassment training to employees beginning in calendar year 2020.
The times, they are a changin’
By Emily A. Hansen
Employee Benefits,
April 2018
The national conversation regarding sexual misconduct has led to action and will lead to reform. What can you do? Raise your voice and encourage other women to speak up to stop sexual harassment.
Preventing and addressing sexual harassment today
By Robert L. Miller
Government Lawyers,
March 2018
While the law provides limits on the legal filing of complaints against employers, the issue of responding to a new internal complaint about behaviors from years past remains.
The times, they are a changin’
By Emily A. Hansen
Women and the Law,
January 2018
The national conversation regarding sexual misconduct has led to action and will lead to reform. What can you do? Raise your voice and encourage other women to speak up to stop sexual harassment. Help review and improve workplace policies on sexual harassment. Show your support by joining the January 20, 2018 March to the Polls, the Second Annual Women’s March in Chicago and around the country.
The ongoing saga of sexual harassment
By Hon. Debra B. Walker
Human and Civil Rights,
December 2017
With the Illinois legislature beginning to undergo sexual harassment training and apparently adopting legislation that would require all elected officials to be so educated, will this apply to the third branch of government?
Why do powerful serial harassers get away with it for so long?
By Richard T. Seymour
Labor and Employment Law,
December 2017
This article discusses the standards developed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids harassment based on sex, race, and other protected characteristics, and also forbids retaliation against those who oppose unlawful actions or participate in the Title VII enforcement process.
Why do powerful serial harassers get away with it for so long?
By Richard T. Seymour
Corporate Law Departments,
December 2017
This article discusses the standards developed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids harassment based on sex, race, and other protected characteristics, and also forbids retaliation against those who oppose unlawful actions or participate in the Title VII enforcement process.
The ongoing saga of sexual harassment
By Hon. Debra B. Walker
Bench and Bar,
November 2017
With the Illinois legislature beginning to undergo sexual harassment training and apparently adopting legislation that would require all elected officials to be so educated, will this apply to the third branch of government?
I know it when I see it
By Emily M. Johns
Bench and Bar,
September 2016
Although Illinois has anti-sexual harassment legislation in place, due to society’s recent awareness of the transgender community there is a rising tide of sexual harassment issues that are becoming more prevalent and need to be addressed.
Expanded liability for sexual harassment in Illinois
By Kenneth W. Gage & Laura R. Feldman
Labor and Employment Law,
June 2009
On April 16, 2009, the Illinois Supreme Court expanded Illinois employers’ exposure to damages for sexual harassment and distinguished Illinois law from federal law.
Sexual harassment—student-to-student
Education Law,
June 2000
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a school district can be found liable for monetary damages under Title IX for its failure to respond adequately to a student's complaints of severe and offensive sexual harassment by a fellow student.
Sexual harassment in Illinois employment
By Nicole Vercruysse
Young Lawyers Division,
August 1999
The Illinois Human Rights Act1 and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act2 are the two bodies of law used to address sexual harassment in employment throughout Illinois.3
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