IELRA Update

Tina Christofalos Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn LLP

Tina Christofalos concentrates her school law practice on issues arising throughout all stages of the employment relationship. She advises clients on matters such as workplace discrimination, health and safety, wage and hour issues, employee handbooks, termination, and disciplinary action. Tina also counsels employers in traditional labor matters including collective-bargaining, grievance arbitration, unfair labor practice charges, and has extensive experience representing school districts in administrative hearings before state and federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

Mike Fredendall Related Seminars and Products

Associate General Counsel

Illinois Education Association-U

Ellen Maureen Strizak Related Seminars and Products

General Counsel

Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board

Ellen Maureen Strizak is the General Counsel of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. She began working for the Illinois Educational Labor Relations as a Board Writer in 2002. Ms. Strizak was Staff Counsel for the Illinois Labor Relations Board from 2006 until 2010. She returned to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board in 2010 as Associate General Counsel and became General Counsel in 2019. Ms. Strizak received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Iowa and her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School. Prior to law school, Ms. Strizak organized tenants as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in Austin, Texas.