Samuel Mitchell

Sam is a skilled constitutional and labor and employment litigator with extensive experience defending clients in diverse industries before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Sam combines his passion for creative problem solving with his natural competitive spirit to formulate and implement aggressive legal strategies and to achieve winning outcomes for his clients.

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Illinois Mandates Pay Transparency in Job Postings: What Employers Need to Know

By Anne Mayette & Samuel Mitchell on June 24, 2024

Posted in Employee Benefits

On August 11, 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed an amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act that mandates new pay transparency requirements for most Illinois employers.

New Pay Transparency Requirements

Effective January 1, 2025, the amendment requires all public and private employers in Illinois with 15 or more employees to provide pay scale and benefits information in all open job postings. This means that covered employees must provide the following information for each posted position:

Budding Marijuana Use by Employees Leaves Employers to Hash Out Sticky Testing Situations

By Samuel Mitchell on April 26, 2022

Posted in Cannabis

Close-up images of medicine drops, marijuana medicine, biological and ecology, medicinal plants, cbd oil from bottles, herbal treatment, alternative medicine

Campaigns to legalize marijuana at the state and federal levels are blazing nationwide. These efforts are creating a hazy legal landscape for employees, particularly surrounding drug testing in states legalizing or even offering protections for off-the-job employee marijuana use.

Labor and Employment Law Insights

Samuel Mitchell

Illinois Mandates Pay Transparency in Job Postings: What Employers Need to Know

Budding Marijuana Use by Employees Leaves Employers to Hash Out Sticky Testing Situations

Labor and Employment Law Insights

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