Legal Question in Employment Law in Illinois

I work for a division of a large company (company A) that is in the process of being sold off and aquired by another large company (company B). As part of this process all of the employees being transfered to the new company (company B) applied for employment (application, background check, etc) and were offered employment in the form of individual offer letters of employment contigent on the acquistion closing. The acquisition was originally scheduled to occur several weeks ago but was delayed, now company A is planning to layoff some of the employees who were planned to be transfered. They are pushing to get the layoff processed quickly before the acquisition by company B occurs (forecast to occur 3 week from now). We are being told that Company B will not hire the layed off employees even though they have offer letters. Throughout the past 6 months we have been continually been assured that all divisional employees would be moved over to Company B.

Do the impacted employees who are being layed off have any legal recourse to protect their employment with Company B?


Asked on 1/12/11, 7:10 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Zedrick Braden III Ainsworth & Associates PC

Hello. In my opinion it is worth looking into. I recommend that the employees in question retain an attorney. It appears that bad faith may exists on the part of Company B which may be actionable, but here I do not have all the necessary details to give you a definitive answer. If you have a union, their involvement would certainly be in order.

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Answered on 1/17/11, 8:59 pm


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