Case: Wage & Hour/Family and Medical Leave (S.D. Ala.)

A federal district court granted Wireless Time of Alabama summary judgment on a terminated store manager’s claims of Family and Medical Leave Act interference and retaliation alleging she was denied FMLA leave for her high-risk pregnancy. The court found that Wireless Time wasn’t a covered employer under the FMLA because it didn’t have more than 50 employees for the requisite number of calendar weeks, and despite its employee handbook referring to the FMLA, the manager failed to provide evidence showing that it made any material misrepresentations related to her FMLA eligibility. Further, her manager informed her that the company didn’t ...