Hart

I. Background

Hart alleges that beginning in 2015, she was “unfairly” required to clock in using a different badge reader than other employees. She received a Letter of Warning for her failure to follow instructions and use the correct badge reader. (Docket Entry No. 35 at 3). The Postal Service

1 Hart sued Megan Brennan, the former United States Postmaster General. Louis DeJoy has been automatically substituted. Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). alleges that the Letter of Warning was also based on Hart’s habitual late arrival at the daily stand- up meeting. Hart was late 12 times in a 40-day period. (Docket Entry No. 33-2 at 2). Hart also alleges that after she was absent for about six days in May and June 2015 because her daughter was ill, she was told to write a statement that she had been absent for a “stress related

job injury.” (Docket Entry No. 35 at 3–4). After she wrote the statement, she alleges that she was instructed to clock out and was then escorted off the premises. The Postal Service denies that it instructs employees to submit false statements about the reasons for being absent from work and asserts that it was its practice in the Sierra Coastal District that an…