Syncro Corporation v. Suttles

On Application for Rehearing.

This court's June 30, 2000, order of affirmance without opinion, issued pursuant to Rule 53, Ala.R.App.P., is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Linda Suttles (the "worker") sued Syncro Corporation (the "company"), alleging that it had fired her in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. See Ala. Code 1975, § 25-5-11.1.1 The company argued that it had fired the worker because she had violated the company's absence policy by missing two consecutive work days without reporting or explaining her absence. The worker argued that the…