An interesting case is making its way through the courts, and the employer tried to use the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act to get out of their alleged bad behavior.

In a nutshell, here’s what happened. An Enterprise Rent-A-Car facility in Cook Country used a fingerprint timekeeping system for its employees. When employees arrived at the beginning of their shift, the system scanned their fingerprints and they clocked in. The same process was repeated at the end of their shift to clock out.

A former employee at this facility, Dawon Wordlaw, brought a lawsuit against Enterprise Leasing Co. of Chicago and…
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