know your legal rights!
If you work in the City of Chicago and you have been fired, demoted, experienced a change in your work circumstances…or not hired in the first place…due to what you believe is a discriminatory practice (i.e. based on your race, religion, sex, national original, disability) or action by your employer or potential employer…you can file to have that adverse action investigated by four different governmental agencies: The Chicago Commission on Human Relations; The Cook County Commission on Human Rights; The Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Did you know that if after your work injury, you are forced to obtain a lesser paying job, you may be eligible to receive payments representing the difference in what you could have made in your pre-injury employment versus what you are forced to earn post injury?
