Alan M. Kaplan
Alan is Of Counsel to the firm.
Alan is an attorney licensed in the State of Illinois and to practice in the Northern District of Illinois federal court. Alan brings over 35 years of law firm experience, which followed a 6½-year career with the National Labor Relations Board in the General Counsel’s Washington, D.C. office, and the Chicago regional office, as an investigator, election judge, and prosecuting attorney before the Board and in federal court. He is committed to providing efficient and effective consulting, drafting, negotiating, and internal investigating services to companies regarding union and employment law strategies and matters, including employment agreements and policies, employment and labor relations management, performance management, reductions-in-force and terminations, wage and hour issues, leaves of absences, the protection of intellectual property — including confidentiality, non-competition, and non-solicitation agreements — the maintenance of a non-union working environment, and, for unionized companies, collective bargaining and the grievance/arbitration process. Alan represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other federal and state employment-law agencies. Most recently, Alan was an equity partner at Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd., where he served as Chair and Co-Chair of the Employment & Labor Practice Group. A frequent speaker and author, he has served as Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section Council as well as the Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council. He also has served as Continuing Legal Education Chair for both section counsels. Alan has an AV rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell and has been consistently named a Super Lawyer.
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December 12, 2024 Earlier this week, the National Labor Relations Board overturned yet another precedent that affects how employers can run their businesses. The Board overturned the 2019 ruling in MV Transportation, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 66 (2019), which gave employers greater ability to make unilateral changes to their workplace, so long as their actions were covered […]
Continue ReadingDecember 11, 2024 Last month, a federal judge struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently enacted overtime rule. The judge found that the rule exceeded the Department’s statutory authority and vacated the rule and remanded it back to the Department for further consideration in light of the judge’s ruling. Overtime Exemption Under the Fair […]
Continue ReadingDecember 11, 2024 Last month, the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Amazon.com Services, LLC, Case 29-CA-280153, and effectuated the General Counsel and Biden Administration’s goal of doing away with captive audience meetings. In doing so, the Board overturned its landmark Babcock & Wilcox decision, a 76-year-old precedent that affirmed employers’ First Amendment […]
Continue ReadingDecember 11, 2024 Last month, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Starbucks, Case No.: 19-CA-290905, that changed the standard for determining the legality of employer statements to employees, specifically with regard to changes in the way employees would be able to communicate with their employer if they voted to unionize. In doing […]
Continue ReadingOctober 18, 2024 Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board drastically changed the landscape of union organizing campaigns in its landmark decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC, 372 NLRB No. 130 (2023). The doctrine that came from this decision, which completely changed the playing field for employers faced with a union organizing campaign, is […]
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