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Bad Timing: Can an Employer Terminate an Employee Shortly After Requesting FMLA Leave?

By Jeff Nowak on December 20, 2012
Posted in Interference, Retaliation

As a labor and employment attorney, I spend a significant amount of time counseling employers as they prepare to terminate an employee.  Often enough, the situation goes something like this:

My operations people want to terminate Fred.  He has flown off the handle one too many times, and now, we think we caught him misreporting

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Jeff Nowak is a shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C., the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing employers. Jeff has two decades of experience advising and litigating on behalf of employers on a wide range of complex employment law matters and is a recognized leader on FMLA and ADA issues, helping employers develop comprehensive strategies to achieve compliance with employee leave and accommodation issues.

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