Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. v. Acevedo

Defendants and counterplaintiffs, 25 former employees of Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. (Employees), appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Kane County granting plaintiff-counterdefendant’s, Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. (Forty-Eight), requested relief in its declaratory action denying Employees’ claim for separation pay under Forty-Eight’s separation pay policy.

Employees raise the following issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court erred as a matter of law in finding that the language of Standard Practice Bulletins D-20 issued in 1974 and 1977 must be interpreted as discretionary…