Articles Tagged with AI Hiring

May 3, 2026

Illinois Employment Law Changes 2026: What Small Business Owners Must Fix Now

What changed? Illinois strengthened pay transparency mandates, expanded personnel file access rights, tightened pay stub requirements, broadened anti-discrimination protections to cover family responsibilities and reproductive health decisions, added restrictions on AI used in hiring, tightened severance and confidentiality agreement rules, and extended employee rights regarding employer-issued devices under VESSA, all effective in 2025–2026.

Who is affected? Most Illinois employers, particularly those with 15 or more employees, and any business that uses third-party recruiting tools, applicant tracking software, or staffing agencies.

What should you do now? Conduct a focused employment law audit covering job postings, payroll stubs, personnel file procedures, employee handbooks, AI-enabled vendor contracts, severance templates, and company-device policies.

July 18, 2023

How Can You—and How Shouldn’t You—Use AI in the Hiring Process?

by George Bellas

You Can, But Should You?

To begin with, employers thinking about using AI such as ChatGPT during hiring and selection need to familiarize themselves with the technology at a conceptual level, and then look closely at—and understand well enough so they can explain to others—how AI integrates with their recruiting tools and practices.

A key piece of state legislation in Illinois pertaining to the use of AI is the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1), which lays down various stipulations for the recording of video interviews and subsequent use of AI while evaluating said recordings.