Legal Opinion
Cindy Barrett v. Illinois Department of Correct
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 20, 2015No. 13-2833PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Employees in the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”) can be fired if they accumulate 12 unauthorized absences from work. Under IDOC’s absenteeism policy, unauthorized absences accrue on an employee’s record but are automatically expunged if the employee has a clean attendance history for a period of 24 consecutive months.
Cindy Barrett was fired from her job at IDOC in October 2010 after accumulating 12 .unauthorized absences over a period of seven years. She claims that three of these absences — on December 15, 2003; December 22, 2004; and August 10, 2005— were…
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