Barrett v. Illinois Department of Corrections

OPINION

MICHAEL P. McCUSKEY, District Judge.

This case is about a claim that the Illinois Department of Corrections interfered with an employee’s rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The Department of Corrections has an attendance policy of progressive discipline, wherein an employee is given increasingly strong penalties for being absent from work without approval or authorization. The policy also included a reset switch that forgave all prior unauthorized absences if an employee had no unauthorized absences in a two-year period.

Over the span of seven years, Plaintiff accumulated…