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The Illinois House voted on Thursday to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. The governor is expected to sign off on the bill. Illinois now joins California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, which all have plans in place to reach a $15 minimum wage. You can read more about…

On January 15, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided that a court must first determine whether the Federal Arbitration Act’s Section 1 exclusion for disputes involving the “contracts of employment” of certain transportation workers applies before ordering arbitration. The Court also ruled that the phrase “contracts of employment” refers to any work contract, not just…

The landscape of employment litigation has changed since the Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, which made forced arbitration clauses permissible (see our post of May 23 for an explanation of that ruling). The decision was a blow to worker’s rights and could potentially be the beginning of the end of class and…

Congratulations to Arkansas and Missouri for voting to increase their minimum wages! Arkansas will increase its minimum wage to $11 per hour by 2021, and Missouri will increase its minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2021. According to the National Employment Law Project, raising the Missouri minimum wage will help 677,000 low wage workers…