IPLRA Developments
Total Credits: 1.25 Illinois
- Categories:
- Labor Law | Labor Relations
- Speakers:
- Gary Bailey | James Baird | Helen J. Kim
- Duration:
- 75
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 04, 2020
- Product Type:
- On Demand
- License:
- Access for 365 day(s) after purchase.
Description
The panel will provide a summary of all ILRB and court decisions issued in the past year concerning the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and will discuss several significant decisions and rulings. The Board’s General Counsel will also provide an overview of the Board’s structure and administrative performance as well as recent amendments to the Act.
Speaker
Gary Bailey Related Seminars and Products
Attorney
Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council
Gary Bailey has served as a labor attorney for the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council for over 35 years. Gary is involved in negotiations, grievance arbitrations and interest arbitrations on behalf of sworn peace officers and law enforcement personnel across the State of Illinois.
Gary is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law. Gary served on the LEL Section Council for eight years and is currently a Section Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. Gary has been a member of the Section’s State and Local Government Bargaining and Employment Law Committee since 1992 and was the Union Co-Chairman of the Committee from 2009-2012. Gary contributes each year to the Committee’s Annual Report on Interest Arbitrations that occur across the country.
Gary received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his juris doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Gary was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2008.
James Baird Related Seminars and Products
Clark Baird Smith LLP
Helen J. Kim Related Seminars and Products
General Counsel
Illinois Labor Relations Board
Helen Kim has been the General Counsel for the Illinois Labor Relations Board since November 1, 2016.
Prior to her position at the ILRB, she was General Counsel at the Illinois Department of Labor, the state
agency charged with administering and enforcing various labor laws, including the Illinois Minimum
Wage Law, the Wage Payment and Collection Act, and the Prevailing Wage Act. Helen began her state
service as labor relations counsel with the Illinois Department of Central Management Services,
representing state agencies in arbitrations as well as cases before the ILRB. She was also an Assistant
State’s Attorney in the Civil Actions Bureau of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office where she
represented Cook County and its elected officials in labor and employment matters. Helen received her
undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her law
degree from the University of Minnesota Law School.