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Caregiver leave: Was this firing disability discrimination?

by 12/12/2012

A refusal to grant time off as an accommodation for the disability of an employee’s family member will only pass muster for employers too small to be covered by the FMLA or employees who did not work long enough to be eligible for FMLA leave.

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