McKenna v. Board of Trustees of University of Illinois

Four nonacademic employees at the University of Illinois Medical Center campus brought this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from their employer’s redesignation of their wage rate classification. Defendants filed a section 45 motion to dismiss (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110, par. 45), alleging plaintiffs failed to state a cause of action. After argument of counsel, the circuit court granted defendants’ motion.

Plaintiffs ask this court to determine (1) whether the trial court erred when it ruled that the parties fell without the scope of “An Act in relation to the rate of pay…