This panel will focus on current trends/approaches to employee discipline and present real world hypotheticals on how discipline has been handled during the pandemic.
Carlos Arévalo is a partner at Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd. with over 20 years of experience. He represents public and private sector clients in the areas of labor and employment law and local government law. Carlos advocates for his clients in state and federal courts, in administrative agencies and in arbitration and collective bargaining proceedings. Carlos has been active in leadership for the Illinois State Bar Association Local Government Law and Labor & Employment Law Section Councils having served a past chair in both. He sits on the board of directors for the Friends of McHenry County College Foundation, the Regional Board of Mercyhealth System and is a Past-President of Stateline SHRM in McHenry County. He has also served in the Legislative Committee for IPELRA and is a member of the Leadership Greater McHenry County Class of 2013. Carlos frequently speaks on labor and employment issues at the state and local level and is honored and pleased to once again serve as a panelist at the Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law Conference at Chicago-Kent.
Latoyia Kimbrough is one of three in-house attorneys for the Chicago Teachers Union, representing over 28,000 members in the third largest school district in the nation. She joined the CTU in September 2015. Ms. Kimbrough represents CTU members in discipline Mediation/Arbitration, Grievance Arbitration, Labor Board proceedings, and due process Dismissal Hearings. Ms. Kimbrough is a graduate of Englewood High School, a Chicago Public School. Prior to working for CTU, she assisted in organizing CTU and community members around educational issues. Ms. Kimbrough earned her BA in Political Science from North Central College and her JD from Northern Illinois College of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude.
Firefighter Forum
Opening Plenary: Cultural & Political Polarization
Auditorium
Opening Plenary: Cultural & Political Polarization
Original Program Date: 12/02/2022 |
Marijuana, Drug Testing, and Other Privacy Issues in the Workplace
Original Program Date: 12/02/2022 |
Closing Plenary: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Public Sector
Original Program Date: 12/02/2022 |