Category Archives: Employment Law

No Future Damages Allowed in Wage Payment and Collection Act Claim – IL 2d Dist.

Eakins v. Hanna Cylinders, LLC, 2015 IL App (2d) 140944 is the third in a trio of recent Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, 820 ILCS 115/1 et seq., (“Wage Act”) cases that address an employee’s rights to recover future damages after an employer prematurely terminates a multi-year contract. (The other two cases – Majmundar …

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Law Firm Not An Employment Agency – Can Recover In Quantum Meruit For Negotiating Personal Services Contract (IL Law)

  Todd W. Musburger, Ltd. v. Meier, 394 Ill.App.3d 781 (1st 2009), while dated, is still post-worthy for its in-depth discussion of a lawyer’s quantum meruit recovery  from a client after the client fires the lawyer under a contingent fee contract. The defendant radio personality had previously hired the plaintiff law firm under a multi-year …

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“Will It Play in Peoria?!”: Fed. Court Casts Doubt on Continued Vitality of ‘Two – Year Rule’ to Enforce Non-Compete

Fifield v. Premier 2013 IL App (1st) 120327 is (was?) an important case in employment law circles for cementing the “two year rule”: two years of continuous employment is the bare minimum length of at-will employment required for an employer to enforce a restrictive covenant. From the employer’s vantage point, the rule was troubling since it …

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