IPS21 Public Education: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Total Credits: 1.25
- Categories:
- Labor Law | Labor Relations
- Speakers:
- John Brosnan | Lisa R. Callaway | Steve A. Yokich, JD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 16 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 02, 2021
- Product Type:
- On Demand
- License:
- Access for 365 day(s) after purchase.
Description
In this session we’ll discuss the procedural and substantive challenges of bargaining in a pandemic, and review significant IELRB cases of interest, providing both the union and management perspective. Also, we will discuss advantages and disadvantages of conducting virtual proceedings before the IELRB and its administrative law judges.
Speaker
John Brosnan Related Seminars and Products
Special Counsel
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board
Lisa R. Callaway Related Seminars and Products
Partner
Engler Callaway Baasten & Sraga LLC
Ms. Callaway earned her undergraduate degree cum laude, Juris Doctor degree, and Masters of Science in Industrial Relations, all from Loyola University of Chicago. Ms. Callaway concentrates her practice in the areas of labor and employment law. Before joining Engler Callaway Baasten & Sraga LLC, Lisa was a partner at Clark Baird Smith LLP, Vice President and General Counsel for the Management Association of Illinois, and an associate practicing in labor and employment law at two other Chicago law firms. Over the past decades, she has represented municipalities, school districts, community colleges, other local governmental entities, and private companies. Lisa has a wealth of experience negotiating public and private sector collective bargaining agreements, and has also represented public and private sector clients in federal and State court litigation and before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the State and federal departments of Labor, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, and the Illinois Educational and Public Labor Relations Boards. She frequently lectures on labor and employment law issues at local, State and national conferences and has authored articles on topics such as collective bargaining, employment discrimination, employment termination, and workplace Internet/e-mail misuse. Lisa is also a Fellow in The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Steve A. Yokich, JD Related Seminars and Products
Partner
Dowd, Bloch, Bennett, Cervone, Auerbach & Yokich, LLP
Stephen A. Yokich graduated from Northwestern University in 1978 and cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. He clerked for the Honorable George Edwards, the Chief Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1981 to 1982. Steve served as the General Counsel for Labor for the Education and Labor Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 1994. He worked as an Associate General Counsel for the International Union, UAW in the UAW’s Washington D.C. office from 1995 to 1998 and held a half-time position with the UAW from 2001-2016. He was a partner at the union-side labor law firm of Cornfield and Feldman before joining the firm in 2015.
Steve represents private and public sector labor unions in cases before state and federal labor relations boards and in state and federal trial and appellate courts. This representation encompasses the enforcement of union contracts and the defense of cases involving allegations of discrimination, breach of the duty of fair representation and state law torts. He represents unions in cases with the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration and with State occupational safety and health agencies. He also represents individuals and classes of individuals in suits under the civil rights acts, in suits involving the wage and hour laws and in suits involving retiree health and pension benefits.