An employee may seek damages for any wages, salary, employment benefits or other compensation lost as a result of an FMLA violation. A court may award interest on the lost employment compensation as well as liquidated damages in an amount equal to the lost employment compensation. If an employee has not lost any wages as [...]

Federal Court Affirms USPS FMLA Return-To-Work Policy U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reverses previous decision in Harrell vs. USPS – USPS required employees who had taken leave for more than 21 days to submit much more information than a doctor’s note in order to return to work. Rodney Harrell refused to provide [...]