With a focus on Illinois legislative developments, this panel will explore major legislation from the 103rd General Assembly impacting public workplaces. The panel will cover key changes to Illinois law, regulatory actions and compliance reminders for Illinois employers. The panel will also address labor legislation in Illinois and evolving developments including with respect to the Illinois Worker Freedom of Speech Act and Fall Veto Session activity in Springfield.
Margaret Angelucci is a shareholder with the firm and has been in practice since 1994. Since then, she has represented the interests of working people in a variety of capacities. Margaret represents labor unions and individual employees in both the public and private sectors. In the labor context, Margaret’s practice runs the full gamut of the labor-management relationship, including training union staff, union organizing drives, contract negotiations, contract enforcement, grievances, arbitrations, interest arbitrations and unfair labor practice proceedings.
In her practice, Margaret routinely appears in state and federal courts, and before the Illinois Labor Relations Board, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, the National Labor Relations Board, the EEOC, the Department of Labor, and various civil service boards.
Abby Rogers maintains a broad-based labor and employment practice, with decades of experience representing governmental entities and private sector clients. Ms. Rogers focuses on general employment relationship issues, labor relations matters and collective bargaining. Ms. Rogers divides her practice equally between counseling clients and defending clients in litigation, including labor arbitration, administrative and judicial proceedings. She has extensive experience with the FMLA and with medical and disability issues in the workplace. In addition, Ms. Rogers regularly lectures and conducts workforce training on issues related to non-discrimination and anti-harassment, managing medical issues and leaves of absence in the workplace, and managing other workplace concerns. She is a contributing author on “Sex Discrimination and Harassment,” to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education publication Employment Discrimination: Unlawful Grounds and Prevention (2021) and a contributing author on “Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace,” to the American Bar Association publication Municipal Law Desk Book (2015).
Opening Plenary: How Will This Election Cycle Influence Public Sector Labor Relations
Original Program Date: 12/06/2024 |
Mediation-Arbitration, Expedited Hearings, Consolidated, and Multiple Claims.
Original Program Date: 12/06/2024 |
The AI Revolution in Labor: Recent Developments and Future Challenges
Original Program Date: 12/06/2024 |
Fundamentals of Discipline/Grievance Arbitration (Non-Lawyers and New Lawyers)
Original Program Date: 12/06/2024 |
Police Officer Certification and Decertification Three Years After the SAFE-T Act
Original Program Date: 12/06/2024 |