With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". year. Instead, he was offered a “terminal” contract for that year at a lower salary. Plaintiff charges in his complaint that his demotion and ultimate termination were in retaliation for his activities in the Minority Caucus. Following his termination at the end of the 1976-77 school year, plaintiff filed a charge of discrimination with the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission (the Commission). By the terms of the Fair Employment Practices Act then in force, the Commission was required to issue a complaint or, alternatively, an order that no complaint issue, within 180 days of plaintiff’s charge. (See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 48, par. 858.01(a); see also Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Plan Com. v. Fair Employment Practices Com. (1978), 71 Ill. 2d 61,68,373 N.E.2d 1307 (<HOLDING>).) The Commission did not act on plaintiff’s

A: holding that a party must file an eeoc charge within 180 days from the date the unlawful act occurred or lose the ability to recover for it
B: holding that the language of the iad is mandatory and absolute
C: holding that the language of the statute is mandatory and the commission must act within 180 days
D: holding that the statute is mandatory
C.