Ancel Glink’s employment law blog, The Workplace Report with Ancel Glink, recently reported on updated EEOC guidance to employers regarding COVID-19. We’ve reprinted the post below but we also encourage you to visit and subscribe to The Workplace Report here. EEOC UPDATES ITS CORONAVIRUS GUIDANCE Throughout the pandemic, the EEOC has maintained a list of frequently asked questions for employers regarding Coronavirus-related issues. The FAQs are informative, and we suggest that employers take a…

We’ve previously reported on a few cases involving challenges to municipal impound and towing charges. Recently, an Illinois appellate court considered a challenge to a City of O’Fallon ordinance that imposes a $500 charge on a driver whose vehicle is impounded for a DUI offense. Saladrigas v. City of O’Fallon The Village ordinance imposes the $500 charge in addition to other fees imposed for towing and storage of the vehicle and penalties imposed for the…

An Illinois Appellate Court recently issued a ruling in favor of a Sanitary District, the City of Champaign, and other government bodies in a challenge to invalidate an intergovernmental agreement and other ordinances that affected the development of the plaintiff’s property. I-57 & Curtis, LLC v. Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District. The challenged IGA and ordinances allowed the plaintiff to annex its property to the Sanitary District (and connect to the Sanitary District’s sewer…

It’s been awhile since we have reported on social media activities that result in an employee’s termination.  An Illinois municipality recently fired its police chief for posting a meme on his personal Facebook page that showed people looting from a store, with the following caption: Looting….when free housing, free food, and free education just aren’t enough The village issued a press release about the termination: We hold all of our public officials to the highest…

Protect Our Parks, Inc. and Maria Valencia filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District to try stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park. The plaintiffs claimed that the Obama Presidential Center project does not serve the public interest but rather the private interest of its sponsor, the Barack Obama Foundation. Specifically, they argue that the defendants violated Illinois’ Public Trust Doctrine by transferring control of…

As we reported last week, Ancel Glink’s Quorum Forum Podcast went “live” to discuss a new court decision about emails and texts on government officials’ and employees’ personal accounts. We also explained what qualified immunity is for local governments in the ongoing national conversation about claims against police.  If you missed this episode when it went “live,” no problem – you can tune into the audio recording on our Quorum Forum Podcast website here.…

There have been a number of legal challenges to Governor Pritzker’s COVID-19 related executive orders, many of which we have reported about on Municipal Minute. Recently, one of those challenges made its way to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (a federal appeals court). In Republican Party of Illinois v. Pritzker, the 7th Circuit upheld Governor Pritzker’s restrictions on gatherings against a challenge that the gathering restrictions were unconstitutional because they favored the free…