Sheriff of Jackson County v. Illinois State Labor Relations Board

The petitioner, the sheriff of Jackson County (Sheriff), appeals from a final decision by the Illinois State Labor Relations Board (the Board) that required him to remove the current appointee to the jail lieutenant position and to promote Linda Brown to that position with back pay. The petitioner asserts that: (1) the action of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) should have been time-barred; (2) the administrative law judge’s finding of discrimination is against the manifest weight of the evidence; and (3) the Board’s remedy is improper. For the following reasons, we affirm.

In 1986, the FOP…