Employment Law Alert Illinois Supreme Court Adopts Religious Ministerial Exemption We’ve written about court decisions applying judicial doctrines under the First Amendment to bar some types of employment claims against religious entities. The Illinois Supreme Court...
Several years ago, three employees of a soybean company claimed they were discharged in retaliation for blowing the whistle on their employer’s allegedly illegal activities. Since then, the dispute has been up and down the Illinois court system. Now, the Illinois...
For more than three decades, Illinois courts have allowed a narrow exception to the employment-at-will doctrine by recognizing the tort of retaliatory discharge. To establish such a claim, the employee must prove (1) the employer discharged employee; (2) the discharge...
