Hardesty v. State

This matter comes before the Court on Respondent’s motion to dismiss.

The Claimant, an electrician who worked for the State, is seeking retroactive compensation based on a difference between the union scale agreed to by the industry and the prevailing rate paid by the State during the interim period between the date of the industry labor agreement and the time the State changed its prevailing rate scale. The issue involved in this case has long been settled and is exemplified by the case of Hollender v. State (1944), 14 Ill. Ct. Cl. 40, wherein this Court stated in effect that merely because…