Our Blog: Employee Pay and Compensation

A number of years ago, we published a blog setting out several tools employers have used to deny employees what we believe are earned bonuses as well as some ideas about legal principles on which an employee might rely to get those bonuses back.  For that complete blog post, scroll to the bottom of this page.  Now more than five years later, …

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In a case of first impression, obtained favorable decision for Plaintiff regarding retroactivity of statutory 2% interest penalty to Plaintiff’s jury award

The Case Law Firm recently won an important victory regarding the retroactive application of amendments to an Illinois state statute. In Brandl v. Superior Air Ground Ambulance Services, Inc., Case No. 09-CV-06019, a jury awarded our client payment for hours of accrued vacation time for which the Defendant had refused to pay at the time of her termination in violation …

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The Vanishing Earned Bonus [Part I] – And How to Get it Back!

Every year, around this time we start to get calls from employees who have not only lost their jobs but have also been denied their year-end bonus, which so many families depend on in budgeting their lives.  Employers use all kinds of tricks to withhold what employees rightly feel …

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