http://www.hrlegalnews.com/employee-fired-while-on-fmla-was-that-legal/ Up-to-the-minute cases and law impacting HR Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:01:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.hrlegalnews.com/employee-fired-while-on-fmla-was-that-legal/comment-page-1/#comment-1997 banker girl Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:06:28 +0000 http://www.hrlegalnews.com/?p=302#comment-1997 Before FMLA, 17 yrs ago, I was on maternity leave when a merger took place at my bank. The HR person called to inform me that I would be terminated upon my medical release date because everyone on disability at the takeover point was losing their jobs. It didn't matter that they kept an equal level supervisor who was on probation because of weekly absenteeism. I immediately called the local EEOC who told me that I had no recourse -"as long as all of the disabled were treated the same." It did not sit well with me, but thinking I was going to continue in the field, I didn't push it - my main focus was finding a job. After securing a job in another industry, I tried to pursue what I believed to be discrimination. Unfortunately, at that point, I was told by the local EEOC director that I was given incorrect information in my initial call and that I had missed the statute of limitations by several days. Timing is everything. Before FMLA, 17 yrs ago, I was on maternity leave when a merger took place at my bank. The HR person called to inform me that I would be terminated upon my medical release date because everyone on disability at the takeover point was losing their jobs. It didn’t matter that they kept an equal level supervisor who was on probation because of weekly absenteeism. I immediately called the local EEOC who told me that I had no recourse -”as long as all of the disabled were treated the same.” It did not sit well with me, but thinking I was going to continue in the field, I didn’t push it – my main focus was finding a job. After securing a job in another industry, I tried to pursue what I believed to be discrimination. Unfortunately, at that point, I was told by the local EEOC director that I was given incorrect information in my initial call and that I had missed the statute of limitations by several days. Timing is everything.

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