Kraft, Inc. v. City of Peoria

Defendants, Jimmie Young, the City of Peoria, and the City of Peoria Fair Employment and Housing Commission (Commission), appeal from a judgment of the circuit court finding that the Commission lacked jurisdiction to act on a complaint filed by Jimmie Young against plaintiff, Kraft, Inc., Dairy Group (Kraft), because the action was preempted by Federal labor law. Alternatively, the trial court found that the Commission’s decision that Jimmie Young was discharged from his employment with Kraft because of race discrimination was against the manifest weight of the evidence, and defendants also…