When employment termination is necessary, this handbook provides the information you need to establish the basis for the action, the proper procedures to carry it out, and the best-practice response to any questions that might arise. Chapter topics include severance pay plans and arrangements; pleadings, discovery, and settlements; employment torts; employment discrimination and discharge; plant closings and reductions in force; retaliatory discharge; employee plan issues in individual employment terminations; employee plan issues in mass employment terminations; and prosecuting claims under the Illinois False Claims Act.
Chapter 1 — Severance Pay Plans and Arrangements
James Harbert,Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Pleadings, Discovery, and Settlement: Checklists and Forms
Rachael E. Kohl, Unemployment Insurance Clinic, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Chapter 3 — Employment Torts
Reviwed by IICLE staff
Chapter 4 — Employment Discrimination and Discharge
Michael Robert Booden, Old World Industries, LLC, Northbrook, and Mary Nagel, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Plant Closings and Reductions in Force
Margaret Curtiss Hannon,University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Chapter 6 — Retaliatory Discharge – The Public Policy Doctrine
Todd D. Steenson, Exelon Business Services Corporation, and Kent Sezer, Neal & Leroy, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Employee Plan Issues Arising in Individual Employment Terminations
Lisa M. Burman,Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Special Employee Plan Issues Arising in Reductions in Force or the Sale of the Employer
Anthony E. Antognoli,Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Prosecuting a Claim Under the Illinois False Claims Act
Don R. Sampen,Clausen Miller PC, Chicago, and Michael C. Rosenblat, Michael C. Rosenblat, P.C, Northbrook
