On July 29, 2016, Governor Rauner signed into law the Child Bereavement Leave Act, Public Act 99-0703.  The Act provides a maximum of two weeks (10 work days) of unpaid…

Effective January 1, 2017, public bodies that fail to comply with binding decisions issued by the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) may face additional fines and penalties. On…

On July 22, 2016, Governor Rauner signed the Local Government Travel Expense Control Act.  In a Law Alert yesterday we described that the law, among other things, requires all school…

On July 22, 2016, Governor Rauner signed into law the Local Government Travel Expense Control Act.  The law requires all school districts, community colleges and units of local government other…

On June 24, 2016, the Illinois Appellate Court held the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), because the IHSA is a…

On July 1, 2016, the TRS Early Retirement Option (ERO) provision expired.  The TRS ERO provision had been in place since July 1, 2005.  The ERO allowed qualified TRS members…

This question of accessibility to closed session records by members of a public body’s governing board has come up from time to time.  On June 30, 2016, Governor Rauner signed…

The Illinois Personal Information Protection Act, which obligates “data collectors” (defined to include any public or private entity, including school districts, colleges, townships, park districts, and other local governmental entities…

This morning, the United States Department of Labor issued its final rule under the Fair Labor Standard Act (“FLSA”) which, among other things, raises the annual salary test from $23,000…