Chicago Business Attorney Blog
Most business owners think of their employee handbook as a formality.
A document you put together when you hired your first few employees, maybe pulled from a template, maybe had someone review it years ago. It lives in a folder on a shared drive or in a stack of onboarding paperwork. New hires sign it. Nobody reads it closely. It sits there doing what you assume is its job.
Here is the problem. That assumption is costing Illinois businesses significant money, and it is creating legal exposure that most owners do not discover until they are already in litigation.