Police employees recently filed suit against the Chicago Police Department claiming it did not compensate them for work they did off-duty on their mobile electronic devices. Read more
Scott F. Uhler, Mallory A. Milluzzi, Kathleen M. Terese, Jason A. Guisinger and Carmen P. Forte Jr. were selected to speak at the Illinois Library Association Annual Conference in October.
Many contracts that libraries enter into, particularly service and technology contracts, include a provision that is commonly known as an “evergreen clause.” Read more
The Illinois Appellate Court has held that there was no entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits where a clerk’s normal action of bending over and reaching for a pan while seated in his work chair, absent any defect in the equipment […]
The “traveling-employee” doctrine applicable to workers’ compensation benefits did not apply where a police officer was simply driving his own car to his regular workplace and was struck by another vehicle, sustaining injuries. Read more