KCBA: Can We Drop the 'Traveling Employee' Designation?

In United Airlines v. IWCC, No. 1-15-1693WC, issued February 22, 2016, the IWCC and IL reviewing courts had another back and forth about the “traveling employee” concept. We salute the IL WC Commission and courts for getting the ruling “right.” We caution our readers, students and others to remember out highest courts are always arguably ‘right’ because they set the law and we must respect their rulings. Perhaps the better way to analyze it is to indicate our feeling the Illinois and national business community will agree with this outcome but per...