A restaurant manager receives a cook’s request to take intermittent unpaid leave to deal with back pain flare-ups that make ...

The final prong, then, was for the court to look at whether there was a causal connection between invoking FMLA and Ms G’s being fired from her job. In her argument, Ms G noted that there was a close ...

A jury will have to decide if an employer denied a manager the benefit of FMLA leave by holding her to performance standards that didn’t account for her FMLA-related absences, the 7th Circuit held. As ...

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An employee will notify their supervisor and Human Resources of the need to request FMLA leave as soon as possible. If the leave is foreseeable, the employee will give at least 30 days’ advance notice ...

While the manager had violated policy by previously abandoning her shift without warning twice, she may not have been capable of informing the employer the third time, the 8th Circuit found. It’s not ...

A lower court's determination that CSX Transportation violated no laws in terminating employees it suspected of fraud in seeking medical leave was recently unanimously upheld by the 4th U.S. Circuit ...

BNSF Railway Co., the largest freight railroad in the U.S., was slapped with a retaliation lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho this week by a former employee who claims he was ...

Per the arrest warrant, Cleveland's Chief City Planner, Kim Scott, falsified FMLA paperwork and stole 117 hours of paid leave ...