Fed Up With Rude Behavior to Staff, Chairman Orders One-Day Delay in File Processing

The strain of changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic may have begun to show in the Illinois workers' compensation system. Compensation Commission Chairman Michael Brennan on Tuesday sent a sternly worded memo to all law firms and clerking services after some unnamed attorneys and clerks allegedly were rude to commission staff at the Chicago office. As a result, the commission will no longer provide same-day document processing as it has throughout the COVID-19 shutdown. “Our employees are stressed, with concerns regarding the disease process and whether they, too, will be ...