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The policy stated full-time employees who had worked for the employer and accumulated 1,250 work hours in the previous 12 months were eligible under the FMLA. However, the employee did not work for a location that had 50 or more employees within 75 miles, which is required by the statute for eligibility. The court found…

In his State of the Union address earlier this week, President Obama supported a trend that we’ve seen growing on the West Coast for the past several years: mandated paid sick leave for employees. While this concept has been discussed in the past, with little political traction, the current landscape seems different than in previous…

An employer violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) when an account executive who took five weeks of FMLA leave was subsequently disciplined and terminated for failing to achieve her sales goals. Not surprisingly, the employee filed a claim against her former employer alleging interference with her employment rights under the FMLA. The…

The former employer claimed the reason for not considering her was that she had left an unprofessional voicemail with crying and profanity. She alleged that the voicemail was merely an inquiry into the status of the hiring process and not unprofessional at all. She claimed the real reason for rejecting her applications was her use…