Court upholds arbitrator's award finding unilateral change in past practice, rejects public policy challenge

The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has confirmed an award of Arbitrator Edward Krinsky that found  Mondelez Global improperly and unilateral modified a past practice allowing employee to voluntarily work seven days without a day of rest. Mondelez Global, LLC v International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, District 8, Local Lodge 1202.   For "many years" employees had been allowed, on a voluntary basis,  to work seven consecutive days during a calendar work week without having 24 hours of rest. In 2013 a new Human Resources Director became aware of an Illinois statute  providing that employers "shall allow every employee … at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in every calendar week in addition to the regular period of rest allowed at the close of each working day." The statute also provided that the Department of Labor could grant permits authorizing the…

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