Illinois Employment Law

In EEOC v. Urbana Sch. Dist. No.

In Scanlon v. Ignite, Org., the 1^st District Appellate Court (Chicago) ruled that the plain language of the Illinois Personnel Records Review Act provides that an employee has a right to review of his or her personnel file, but not to a copy of that file.

With new proposed rules for requirements for student growth (which have recently undergone proposed revisions), the Illinois State Board of Education has provided additional clarity on the implementation of student growth for schools that fail to reach agreement with their joint committees.  As the rules continue to be developed and modified, Miller, Tracy, Braun, Funk & Miller Ltd. is committed to keeping you posted on the developments.

In a December 2013 decision, the First District Appellate Court of Illinois limited a union's ability to request information about students as a part of the duty to bargain in good faith. Educational employers' statutory duty to bargain in good faith includes an obligation on the part of the employer to provide the union with information upon request.