Current Employment
Bringing (somewhat) daily news, a little commentary, and hopefully a robust discussion of labor and employment law and policy. Topics include unions, wage and hour, benefits, discrimination and other workplace issues in the law.
Author: Tim Eavenson is an attorney practicing labor and employment litigation in Chicago; Chad DeGroot is an attorney practicing employee benefits and executive compensation law in St. Louis; Aaron Janik is an attorney practicing labor law in the area of educators in Chicago.
Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Education Law • Labor & Employment
Recent Posts from Current Employment
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IL Appellate Court Rejects 30-Year-Old Noncompete Analysis
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Illinois has broken from the rest of the State and done away with a 30-year-old test used to analyze noncompete agreements. A little background on noncompetes before we go any…
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Charter Schools Outside of the IL Education Labor Board…for Now
In Illinois, as elsewhere, the state’s school districts have their own Labor Relations Acts and Boards. Illinois teachers’ unions are certified, and their claims of unfair labor practices are heard, by the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board (or…
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Lessons in Trade Secrets from the NFL
The first day of law school, my Contracts professor told us that, by the time we graduated, everything we saw or did would trigger some legal concept or court case or statute in our brain. …
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RIP, Les
I’ve broken the fourth wall of this blog once, going off topic when my son, Leo was born last year. I’m doing it again. Please indulge me. Quick – who’s your favorite guitarist? Your favorite song? …
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Willing to Relocate? Bring a Coat.
What if I told you there was a magical land where the mortgage crisis never happened, where banks, people, and the government were all flush with cash, taxes were going down, industries were moving in…
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Unemployment Hearings – No Lawyer Required
With the recession apparently ending (I’ll believe that when I see it), I thought I’d better slip this post in quick before everyone in the world is back to work and unemployment posts are boring…
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Welcome to the Thunderdome – Blawger Survivor Begins Today
I have always felt a little guilty about how long I go between posts on CE, and someone’s finally called me (and the rest of the legal community) out on it. Last week, CLE-Pro and…
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Ave Maria Law School Says Profs are “Ministers”, Can’t Sue School
The Workplace Prof Blog tipped off this story in the National Law Journal about the ongoing litigation between three former law professors at the Ave Maria School of Law and the school’s founder and financier,…
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A Couple of Questions For… Brian D. McCarthy
From time to time, I will be posing two questions to varied members of the labor & employment law conversation. If you have suggestions for people who should answer A Couple of Questions, send me an…
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Employers: The LinkedIn Recommendation is Not for You
As job searches by both seekers and HR departments have expanded online, the minefield of issues for employers has grown right along with it. The latest tip – coming in a story from the National Law Journal…