Case: Wage & Hour/FLSA Interference (D.D.C.)

The Service Employees International Union cannot avoid the claims of a single mother who had worked as a human resources manager for the union, that the SEIU interfered with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act and retaliated against her because she used leave to care for her small children, a federal court in the District of Columbia ruled. A supervisor’s statement to her—that he would deny any and all of her future leave requests if she didn’t ask and get a response from him first, even if the leave was designated under FMLA—could reasonably tend to restrain ...