Plaintiffs face uphill battle for self-leave FMLA suits 
By:
Correy E. Stephenson and Steve Lash
Published: March 27, 2012
Tags: family leave, Family Medical Leave Act, FMLA, self-care
State employees seeking to file suit under the Family and Medical Leave Act’s self-care provision face an unlikely future after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Last week, the Court issued a plurality decision in Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals holding that Congress could not abrogate states’ sovereign
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FMLA plaintiff can sue in mixed motive case
By:
Nora Tooher
Published: August 27, 2009
Tags: Family Medical Leave Act, Mixed-motive
A plaintiff can sue under the Family Medical Leave Act for on an adverse employment action motivated by both the employee’s use of FMLA leave and other permissible factors, the 6th Circuit has ruled in reversing a U.S. District Court.
Caregiver bias claims grow
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: May 7, 2009
Tags: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, Family Medical Leave Act, Lilly Ledbetter Act, Title VII
An increasing number of discrimination claims are being brought by pregnant women, parents of young children or employees who are caring for a sick relative.
These “family responsibility discrimination” claims are an emerging trend in employment law.
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