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
Heather A. Levinsky, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Chicago, IL
Chapter 3 — Employment Torts
Heather A. Levinsky, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Chicago, IL
Chapter 4 — Employment Discrimination and Discharge
Michael R. Booden, HUB International, Limited, Chicago, and Mary T. Nagel, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Plant Closings and Reductions in Force
Margaret C. Hannon, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Chapter 6 — Retaliatory Discharge – The Public Policy Doctrine
Alexander N. Loftus and Gail Eisenberg, Loftus & Eisenberg, Ltd, 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
Michael C. Rosenblat, Rosenblat Law, Northbrook
