What if you discover during an employee's FMLA leave that the employee wasn’t as stellar as you always believed? What if you couldn’t have known that until you hired a temporary replacement. Must you bring the employee back? No, according to a recent 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
Discovered performance problems while worker was on FMLA leave? You can fire him
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