Lukasik v. Riddell, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE ROMITI

delivered the opinion of the court:

While plaintiff was an employee of defendant, a shoe manufacturer, he entered into a written agreement that, to induce employee to remain in its services, defendant would upon plaintiff’s retirement at 65 or thereafter, provide certain retirement benefits; these benefits were to be forfeited if plaintiff left voluntarily or involuntarily for disability or other reason or was discharged for proper cause. Thereafter before plaintiff’s 65th birthday, he was fired by defendant after he failed to develop nine new shoe designs in about six…