{"id":2270,"date":"2025-09-26T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:37:24","slug":"illinois-amends-workplace-transparency-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/09\/26\/illinois-amends-workplace-transparency-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Amends Workplace Transparency Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Illinois-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1703\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Illinois-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Illinois-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Illinois-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Illinois Workplace Transparency Act (IWTA)\u00a0prohibits employers from including language in certain employment-related agreements that may infringe on an employee\u2019s ability to make truthful statements or disclosures regarding alleged unlawful discrimination, harassment or retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective January 1, 2026, the amended IWTA includes, among other things, expanded protections for disclosing unlawful employment practices, new protections for employee concerted activity, additional limits and conditions on employment agreements, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article explains each of these amendments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Vedder Price:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vedderprice.com\/new-amendments-to-the-illinois-workplace-transparency-act-will-provide-greater-protection-to-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Amendments to the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act Will Provide Greater Protection to Employees<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Workplace Transparency Act (IWTA)\u00a0prohibits employers from including language in certain employment-related agreements that may infringe on an employee\u2019s ability to make truthful statements or disclosures regarding alleged unlawful discrimination, harassment or retaliation. Effective January 1, 2026, the amended IWTA includes, among other things, expanded protections for disclosing unlawful employment practices, new protections for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[37,263,264],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-illinois","tag-iwta","tag-workplace-transparency-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}