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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August 7, 2024 Last week, Illinois enacted the Worker Freedom of Speech Act, which prohibits employers from holding captive audience speeches. This new law will restrict Illinois employers from holding such meetings and make it more difficult for employers to express their view as to whether the workforce should unionize. Captive Audience Meetings Defined Captive […]
Continue ReadingJuly 26, 2024 Today, the National Labor Relations Board rescinded and replaced several amendments that the previous Board made in April of 2020 to its rules and regulations governing the filing and processing of petitions for a Board-conducted representation elections. In doing so, the Board asserts that these new amendments better protect employees’ statutory right […]
Continue ReadingJuly 25, 2024 The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision this week that has major ramifications for both the estate planning strategies of shareholders of closely held companies and the formation of closely held companies themselves. In its Connelly decision (Connelly v. United States, 602 U.S. ____ (2024)), the Supreme Court held that a corporation’s […]
Continue ReadingJuly 25, 2024 The National Labor Relations Board recently filed a motion to dismiss its challenge to a federal court’s order vacating its regulation that would expand joint labor law liability. This change of heart comes amidst a pivotal time for the Democratic Board as its makeup could change drastically due to the upcoming presidential […]
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a Final Rule that substantially increases the salary threshold used to determine if employees are exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). This Final Rule also increases the annual compensation threshold for determining “highly compensated employees” exempt from overtime requirements and establishes a […]
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