O'Keeffe v. Sch. Comm. of Bostonand Another

The plaintiff was a Boston public school teacher who had a dispute with her employer, the school committee of Boston (school committee), about her absences from work. The school committee eventually fired her on the ground that she failed to provide documentation to support her then-current absence.3 As documented by internal human resource records, the decision to fire the plaintiff was made by September 25, 2014. However, the school committee did not notify her that she had been terminated until October 2, 2014. In the interim, she filed with the Department of Labor Relations (DLR) a…