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Employment law 101: Beware firing immediately after employee returns from FMLA leave

11/05/2010

If you terminate an employee the day he comes back from FMLA leave, plan on getting sued. Timing alone can be enough for the court to let a jury decide the case. That’s true even if your past practices in similar cases don’t show any pattern of FMLA interference.

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