Case: Wage & Hour/Family and Medical Leave (N.D. Ohio)

A federal court in Ohio granted summary judgment to FCA US, LLC on the Family Medical Leave Act claim of a former employee whose denied two-day FMLA request subsequently resulted in his termination for attendance violations in 2018, since the claim which wasn’t timely disclosed by the employee in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy is barred by judicial estoppel. FCA US, LLC has shown the employee knew of the FMLA claim, and he had a motive to conceal it because of his bankruptcy plan, the court said. The employee hasn’t demonstrated that he lacked bad faith in the effectiveness of his ...