Appellate Court Upholds Stacked Benefits That Add Up to More Than Worker's Pay

Now that Illinois lawmakers and Gov. Bruce Rauner have finally been able to cobble together a stopgap budget to end a historic impasse and avoid an outright governmental collapse, the judiciary may have just thrown a monkey wrench into things. Democrats in the state House and Senate have been opposing efforts by the Rauner, a Republican, to overhaul the state's comp system, which is the most expensive in the Midwest, according to the most recent biennial study conducted by the administrators of the Oregon comp system. The Illinois Appellate Court may have added another cost driver on...