Illinois Supreme Court PLAs
Civil Court
School Law
This case presents question as to whether I.E.L.R.B. properly found that School District had committed unfair labor practice by refusing to comply with binding arbitration award issued in union's favor on behalf of employee who had been notified that she would not be re-employed as paraprofessional for following school year. Appellate Court, in reversing I.E.L.R.B.'s decision, found that instant employee was at-will and could be discharged for any or no reason, and that arbitrator had gone beyond terms of collective-bargaining agreement and applied his own type of "industrial justice" by improperly reading just-cause standard into collective bargaining agreement when directing that employee be reinstated to her position. (Dissent filed.)