Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, her former employers, alleging they unlawfully terminated her in retaliation for plaintiff’s exercise of her rights under the FMLA and the Missouri Human Rights Act; plaintiff’s husband also asserted a loss of consortium claim. The ...

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Where a surgical technician sued her former employer for allegedly interfering with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act, summary judgment for the defendant was proper because the plaintiff’s evidence did not undermine or raise a genuine issue ...

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  Plaintiff filed suit against defendant, her former employer, asserting violations of the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the FMLA. The district court granted summary judgment on all claims to defendant, finding that plaintiff was terminated for a remark of ...

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Where an employee claimed that her employer interfered with her right to take leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, the judgment against her is affirmed because the district court did not err in finding that the notice given by ...

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After nearly a 10-year hiatus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently issued three formal opinion letters, setting forth its views on various wage-and-hour issues addressed to the WHD by interested parties. Opinion letters represent official WHD ...

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Hernandez v. Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (MLW No. 69516/Case No. 15-2042 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

Tagged with: Attorney’s Fees Employer – Employee FMLA Legal Research Costs

Massey-Diez v. University of Iowa Community Medical Services, Inc. (MLW No. 69348/Case No. 15-2924 – 23 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.)

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Hernandez v. Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC (MLW No. 69169/Case No. 15-2042 – 14 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.)

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Scruggs v. Pulaski County, Arkansas (MLW No. 68985/Case No. 15-1248 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Kelly, J.)

Tagged with: disability discrimination Employer - Employee FMLA

Hasenwinkel v. Mosaic (MLW No. 68628/Case No. 14-3786 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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Brown v. Diversified Distribution System (MLW No. 68282/Case No. 14-2685 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)

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