{"id":470,"date":"2021-06-25T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=470"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:23:04","slug":"illinois-legislature-passes-significant-restrictive-covenant-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2021\/06\/25\/illinois-legislature-passes-significant-restrictive-covenant-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Legislature Passes Significant Restrictive Covenant Reform Bill"},"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;height:114px\" 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>On May 31, 2021, the Illinois Legislature recently passed a bipartisan bill that seeks to significantly amend the Illinois Freedom to Work Act and impose restrictions on the use of non-competition and non-solicitation restrictive covenants for Illinois employees. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Pritzker, and would take effect on January 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sheppard Mullin Law Blog:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laboremploymentlawblog.com\/2021\/06\/articles\/non-competition-covenants\/non-compete-legislation-illinois\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Employers Need to Know About New Non-Compete Legislation in Illinois<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31, 2021, the Illinois Legislature recently passed a bipartisan bill that seeks to significantly amend the Illinois Freedom to Work Act and impose restrictions on the use of non-competition and non-solicitation restrictive covenants for Illinois employees. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Pritzker, and would take effect on January 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/1712"}],"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=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}