Hany v. General Electric Co.

Plaintiffs, salaried employees at General Electric’s Bloomington, Illinois, facility, sued General Electric (GE) for failing to compensate them for vast amounts of overtime worked since 1982. After trial, the jury returned a general verdict for GE. Plaintiffs appeal, arguing that they proved GE had formed and breached a valid employment contract to pay overtime to its salaried employees under Duldulao v. Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center (1987), 115 Ill. 2d 482, 505 N.E.2d 314. Plaintiffs specifically argue that the trial court erred by (1) submitting GE’s “modification defense” to the…