A state employee has filed a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and several other high-ranking state officials, claiming the state's budget impasse has left nonunion employees without the insurance they continue to pay for, reports Chicago Sun Times.
Below are four things to know about the lawsuit.
1. Carrie Weeks-Kinowski, a nonunion civil service employee at Northern Illinois University, filed the suit April 13 in Cook County Circuit Court.
2. The suit alleges that in September 2015 the state stopped giving nonunion employees' insurance withholdings to the insurance companies that administer its benefits programs. As a result, the insurers stopped covering employee medical expenses.
3. The suit claims the state continues to dock insurance premiums from employee paychecks without turning over the fees to payers. The suit blames Illinois' continuing budget impasse for its failure to pay insurance companies for employee benefits.
4. Ms. Weeks-Kinowski alleges Gov. Rauner suspended payments to payers for about 146,000 state workers.