Illinois Public Employee Relations Report
The Report is published quarterly by Chicago-Kent College of
Law, Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois
Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations. The Report
is available by subscription through Chicago-Kent College of Law
at a rate of $40.00 per calendar year for four issues.
Regular Features in Each Issue of the Report:
Recent Developments - - Written by the student editorial
board highlights recent legal developments under the Illinois
Public and Educational Labor Relations Acts and, where warranted
and space permits, other legal developments of interest to the
public sector labor relations community, such as Fair Labor Standards
Act, Equal Employment Opportunity laws and First Amendment issues.
Further References - Written byYoo-Seong Song, Librarian,
University of Illinois Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations,
provides annotations of recent books and articles of interest
to public sector labor relations professionals.
Volume 25 - 2008: Lead Articles:
Issue 1: Family Responsibilities Discrimination: The Next Frontier
in Public Sector Employment Law, by Consuela A. Pinto, Senior
Counsel, Center for Worklife Law
Issue 2: Recent Legislation Developments Affecting Police
and Firefighters, by Bruce C. Beal; Claudon, Kost, Barnhart, Beal
& Walters
Issue 3: The Electronic Public Sector Workplace, by Susan Willenborg, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board
Issue 4: Off Duty Conduct and the Internet, by Paul Klenck, Illinois Educations Association Volume 24 - 2007: Lead Articles:
Issue 1: The Changing Nature of Pension Plans and Retiree Medical
Benefits, by Robert C. Long, Little Mendelson, PC
Issue 2: Labor and Management Perspectives on Garvetti
v. Ceballos, by J. Stuart Garbutt, Meckler, Bulger & Tilson,
LLP and Stephen A. Yokich, Cornfield & Feldman
Issue 3: Dismantling the Public Sector Pension "Crisis,"
by Jourlande Gabriel
Issue 4: Expert Psychological Witnessess in Arbitration, by Arbitrator
Sara Jay and Dr. Patricia Aletky
BACK ISSUES:
Volume 23 - 2006: Lead Articles:
Issue 1: Developments in the Negotiation of Health Insurance
Benefits, by Gary Bailey, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Council
Issue 2: The Firefighter Promotion Act and Collective Bargaining,
by Karl R. Ottosen, Ottosen, Trevarthen, Britz, Kelly & Cooper
Ltd.
Issue 3: Last Chance Agreements in Arbitration, by Barry Simon,
Arbitrator, NAA
Issue 4: Injured Public Employee, by Arnold G. Rubin
Volume 22 - 2005: Lead Articles:
Issue 1:
The Conundrum
of Leave, by Claire A. Manning, Posegate & Denes, P.C.
Issue 2: Developments under the Fair Labor
Standards Act, by Robin Potter, Robin Potter & Associates
Issue 3: The Potential Implications of
the University of Michigan Cases on Public Sector Employment:
Opening Up Leadership in the Public Sector Workplace?,
by Vickie Gillio, Northern Illinois University
Issue 4: Successorship in Public Sector Labor Relations, by Arbitrators
Rochelle Gordon and Brian Clauss
Volume 21 - 2004: Lead Articles:
Issue 1: Arbitral Standards for Deciding Non-Economic Impasse
Issues, by Arbitrator Harvey Nathan
Issue 2: Illinois Public Employee Unions Get the Card Check
As An Alternative Method of Gaining Recognition, by Gilbert
Feldman of Cornfield & Feldman and The Illinois Public
Sector "Card Check" Legislation: A Cure in Search of
a Problem, by R. Theodore Clark, Jr. of Seyfarth Shaw
Issue 3: Recently Enacted Laws that Impact Public and Private
Sector Workplaces, by Carl S. Tominberg, Jill P. O'Brien and
Mary-Frances Ryan of Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin &
Tominberg Ltd.
Issue 4: Attendance Plans, the FMLA and Arbitration, by
Arbitrator Jeanne M. Vonhof and Professor Martin H. Malin
Volume 20 - 2003: Lead Articles:
Issue 1: Protecting Workplace Security After September 11th:
The Ongoing need for Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector,
by Pasquale A. Fioretto and Patrick N. Ryan
Issues 2 & 3: The Evolution of the Law under the IELRA,
by Gerald Berendt
Issue 4: What's Left of the ADA?, by Laurie Burgess
Volume 19 - 2002: Lead Articles
Issue 1: Public Policy Challenges to Arbitration Awards in the
Public Sector Under Illinois Law: Illinois Lets Loose the Unruly
Horse, by Robert Long, Seyfarth Shaw
Issue 2: Wimping Out: Practicing Arbitrators Look at Reinstatement
Without Backpay, by Daniel Nielsen, Christine VerPloeg and James
Martin
Issue 3: An Arbitrator's Duty to Provide a Fair and Adequate
Hearing: An Historical Perspective, by Harvey A. Nathan
Issue 4: Bargaining Implications of the No Child Left Behind
Act, by Michael A. Loizzi, Jr., Penny Upton, and John Di John,
Jr.
Volume 18 - 2001: Lead Articles
Issue 1: New Approaches to Compensation for Teachers, by
Michael Kiser, Fred B. Lifton and Tracy Billows
Issue 2: How Do Civil Service Disciplinary Hearings and Labor
Arbitration of Discipline Cases Co-exist?, by Joel A. D'Alba
Issue 3: Emerging Trends in Public Sector Interest Arbitration:
Employee Residency Rules, by James A. Spizzo and Charis A. Runnels
Issue 4: Labor Management Cooperation: Key to Organization and
Employee Success, by William K. Strycker
Volume 17 - 2000: Lead Articles
Issue 1: The Illinois Supreme Court's Departure from the
Federal Model in Duty of Fair Representation Cases, by Gilbert
Feldman, Cornfield & Feldman
Issue 2: Employment Disabilities After Sutton and Murphy:
Are the Courts Losing Sight of the Purposes of the ADA, by Arbitrator
Lisa Salkovitz Kohn
Issue 3: Coming Together to Address Student Aggression
and School Safety, by William Kling, Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Kope
& Bush
Issue 4: Individual Contracts Rights For School Employees,
by Paul R. Klenck, Deputy General at the Illinois Education Association
Volume 16 - 1999: Lead Articles
Issue 1: Disability Issues in Arbitration by Stephen Rubin,
Arbitrator
Issue 2: Sexual Harassment Developments in the Law, by
Professor, Mary Rose Strubbe, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Issue 3: Union Power, Collective Bargaining and Illinois
Public Pensions, by Hank Scheff, AFSCME Council 31
Issue 4: Minimizing the Potential Litigation Risks of Today's
Electronic Workplace, by Craig R. Thorstenson & Gary N. Savine,
Matkov, Salzman, Madoff & Gunn.
Volume 15 - 1998: Lead Articles
Issue 1: When Can a Public Employee Take Employment Disputes
to Court, and Out of the Collective Bargaining Arena? With
Stahulak and Mahoney, The Illinois Courts Inch Closer To Adopting
the Federal Model, by James Q. Brennwald, Assistant Corporation
Counsel, City of Chicago.
Issue 2: Family and Medical Leave Act: Recent Developments
in the Courts and Arbitration by, Felicitas Berlanga, Associate
General Counsel, Illinois Education Association.
Issue 3: Information Disclosure in Illinois Public Sector
Labor Relations by, A. Lynn Himes and Sarah E. Joyce of
Scariano, Kula, Ellch & Himes.
Issue 4: A Practical Approach to Selecting Comparable Communities
in Interest Arbitration Under the Illinois Public Labor Relations
Act by, Edwin H. Benn, Arbitrator.
Volume 14 - 1997: Lead Articles
Issue 1: The Fair Labor Standards Act: DOL's Salary Basis
Test and Its Impact on Public Sector Employers by, Gia Morris,
Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago.
Issue 2: New Developments in Public Sector Arbitration
-- The New Trilogy and Much Ado About Nothing by, Gregory J. Malovance
and Margaret R. Gibbs of Winston & Strawn.
Issue 3: Violence in the Workplace: An Employer's Potential
Liability and How to Reduce that Exposure by, Lawrence J. Casazza
and Barry J. Shulock of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz.
Issue 4: A Comparison of Interest Arbitration in Protective
Services and Teacher Bargaining by, arbitrator Robert "Rocky"
Perkovich.
Volume 13 - 1996: Lead Articles
Issue 1: School Reform and Labor Relations:
Can Both Go Forward in Chicago? by, James C. Franczek, Jr. and
Patricia M. Trainor of Franczek, Sullivan, Mann, Crement, Hein,
Relias.
Issue 2: Drug Testing and Collective Bargaining in the
Public Sector: The Impact of the Department of Transportation
Regulations by, Elizabeth LaRose of Baum, Sigman, Auerbach, Pierson
& Neuman.
Issue 3: Discipline for Off-Duty Conduct: Can (And If So,
When Should) Big Brother Watch? by, Steven Bierig of Katten, Muchin
& Zavis.
Issue 4: Traps for the Unwary Employee: The Intersection
of the ADA, FMLA, SSA and Workers' Compensation Acts by, Mary
Rose Strubbe, Assistant Director of the Institute for Law and
the Workplace, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Volume 12 - 1995: Lead Articles
Issue 1: "Reflections of the Ten Year Anniversary of the
Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational
Labor Relations Act," by, Joel A. D'Alba, Asher, Gittler, Greenfield,
Cohen & D'Alba.
Issue 2: "Extending Family Benefits to Employees' Domestic
Partners: A Retrospective," by, Steven Briggs, Associate Professor
of Industrial Relations, DePaul University.
Issue 3: "Should We Appeal: An Analysis of Ten Years of
Court Review of Illinois Public Employee Bargaining Board Decisions,"
by Edward B. Miller, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson.
Issue 4: "Trends in Illinois Interest Arbitration," by,
Thomas F. Sonneborn, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor
Council.
Volume 11 - 1994: Lead Articles
Contained articles discussing health insurance reform, the impact
of the Supreme Court's Hicks and Hazen Paper decisions on EEO
litigation, dismissal of tenured teachers for failure to remediate
performance deficiencies, and a retrospective of the first ten
years under the Illinois public employee bargaining statutes from
a management perspective.
Volume 10 - 1993: Lead Articles
Contained analyses of the effects of the Illinois Supreme Court's
decision in Central City School District v. IELRB written from
union and management perspectives, a discussion of standards for
deferral of unfair labor practice charges to arbitration, an analysis
of the impact of the ADA on collective bargaining, and a discussion
of sexual harassment issues, with particular emphasis on how the
issues are handled in grievance arbitration by arbitrator Lisa
Kohn.
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