Overview
When employers need assistance with workplace compliance, Sara is their first call. She concentrates her practice on day-to-day employment and labor counseling, immigration workplace enforcement, wage and hour issues and workplace discrimination issues for her clients.
She routinely works with clients on needs relating to I-9 audits, I-9 and E-Verify compliance, workplace enforcement counseling, defense of governmental immigration related audits and defense of discrimination claims relating to immigration status.
Sara also focuses her practice on governmental wage and hour audits, wage and hour single plaintiff claims and class action claims nationwide. She effectively and efficiently assists clients in analyzing potential damages and defenses in wage and hour matters along with swift resolution of such claims. Sara has participated in negotiations with the proponents regarding work authorization issues to help shape Illinois legislation with an eye on protecting employers to the extent greatest possible.
Experience
Membership & Involvement
- Member: American Immigration Lawyers Association; Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); Illinois State Bar Association
Honors
- Selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers "Rising Stars": 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Resources & Insights
In the Media
Alerts
Speaking Engagements
Published Works
Blog
Contributing Author, SmithAmundsen's The Labor & Employment Law Update, a labor and employment advisory blog.
Contributing Author, Illinois Chamber of Commerce's Chamber Dispatch, an HR advisory blog.
Blog Posts
Education on Demand
Last year Illinois enacted amendments to its own Equal Pay Act, which requires unprecedented reporting of race, gender, and ethnicity statistics along with pay data of Illinois based employees.
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While employers continue to review their COVID-19 protocols under various government vaccine mandates (including OSHA’s ETS) as well as their own policies and practices and customer requirements, testing continues to be a confusing topic for many.
Firm News
- New Equal Pay Reporting Requirements for Illinois: Are You in Compliance?
New Equal Pay Reporting Requirements for Illinois: Are You in Compliance?Join Jeff Risch and Sara Zorich as they discuss Illinois' enacted amendments to its Equal Pay Act, who will be impacted and the steps employers must take.
- COVID-19 Testing: What Employers Need to KnowCOVID-19 Testing: What Employers Need to Know
- OSHA’S COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is Back on!
OSHA’S COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is Back on! - Wage and Hour Questions on the Vaccine Mandate: Pitfalls for Illinois Employers Covered by the Executive OrderWage and Hour Questions on the Vaccine Mandate: Pitfalls for Illinois Employers Covered by the Executive Order
Services
- Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration
- Immigration & Global Mobility
- Class Action
- Wage & Hour
- Affirmative Action
- Cannabis in the Workplace
- COVID-19 Resource Center & Task Force
- Employment Advice & Counsel
- Employment Litigation
- Equal Pay Compliance
- Government Regulation, Audit & Compliance
- Mandatory Training
- Prevailing Wage
- Staffing Agency, Independent Contractor & Contingent Workforce
- Unfair Competition Counseling & Litigation
- Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace
- Workplace Investigations
Education
IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 2006
Michigan State University, B.A., 2000
Admissions
- Illinois
- Pennsylvania