Case: Wage & Hour/FMLA Interference (E.D. Tenn.)

A federal district court granted Worldwide Equipment Inc. summary judgment on a facilities manager’s claims of Family and Medical Leave Act interference and retaliation when he was terminated three days after informing the company that he needed leave for a heart catheterization procedure. Worldwide Equipment claimed that it didn’t know about the manager’s procedure when it decided to terminate him after he lied about an absence from work. The court concluded that he was terminated a few days shy of his one-year employment anniversary and that he failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether he ...