{"id":2311,"date":"2025-10-29T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:04:47","slug":"major-illinois-employment-laws-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/29\/major-illinois-employment-laws-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Illinois Employment Laws for 2026"},"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>Governor Pritzker signed into law new employment\u2013related enactments, such as the Workers\u2019 Rights and Worker Safety Act. Existing laws, such as the Illinois Human Rights Act, the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act, and the Employee Blood and Organ Donation Act, have been amended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article summarizes&nbsp;the most important changes employers need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ogletree Deakins:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/illinois-labor-and-employment-laws-taking-effect-in-2026-what-employers-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illinois Labor and Employment Laws Taking Effect in 2026: What Employers Need to Know<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Pritzker signed into law new employment\u2013related enactments, such as the Workers\u2019 Rights and Worker Safety Act. Existing laws, such as the Illinois Human Rights Act, the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act, and the Employee Blood and Organ Donation Act, have been amended. This article summarizes&nbsp;the most important changes employers need to know. Ogletree Deakins:Illinois Labor [&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":[239,84,37],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-239","tag-employment-laws","tag-illinois"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2312"}],"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=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}