Welcome to the April 2010 issue of SmithAmundsen Labor & Employment Monthly. Please click here to view the issue.
As you probably have expected we devote a large portion of this month’s newsletter on How Employers will be affected by Health Care Reform. In addition, we review the U.S. DOL’s new crackdown on wage/hour enforcement as well as report on the U.S. DOL’s unprecedented position on the exempt status of mortgage loan originators. We also discuss union efforts to expand prevailing wage law.
Finally, it is with great pride that I announce SmithAmundsen’s Labor & Employment Practice Group has finalized the Illinois Chamber of Commerce’s Guidebook on Hiring & Firing. This Guidebook covers the plethora of law and regulation on nearly every conceivable labor/employment issue on the increasingly difficult task of Hiring and Firing employees (on a local, state and federal basis). For our clients, you can proudly claim that you have partnered with the attorneys who literally “wrote the book” on Hiring & Firing. Be assured that once this publication is ready for shipment, appropriate order forms will be sent out.