October 24, 2019
In order to claim an employer violated the FMLA by denying leave, the employee must have actually requested that leave. She doesn’t have to formally state, “I am requesting FMLA leave.” However, what she says must at least be understood as a request.
October 11, 2019
Q. An employee who uses FMLA leave intermittently to care for her ailing father, sometimes says she uses it to take her mother-in-law to doctors’ appointments. Is that right?