Cook County Officers Denied Class Status in Covid-Cleaning Case

Cook County, Ill., correctional officers seeking to be paid for time they spent cleaning themselves, their clothes, cars, and equipment, before and after shifts at the jail in response to the Covid-19 pandemic aren’t entitled to pursue their claims as a class action, a federal court said.

The plaintiffs, who were a proposed class of over 3,000 department of corrections officers, didn’t identify a common policy requiring workers in the class to engage in cleaning activities as a condition of their employment, the opinion by Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ...