Case: Wage & Hour/FMLA Interference (N.D. Ind.)

Sufficient evidence supported a jury verdict in favor of a disabled deputy at the St. Joseph County Board of Elections who resigned after she was threatened with being fired if she didn’t attend an evening training session that would have violated her eight-hour workday restriction that she had been granted under the Family and Medical Leave Act a federal court in Indiana ruled. The jury reasonably found that the board interfered with her rights under the FMLA by discouraging her from using FMLA leave, regardless of whether she established that she was constructively discharged, the court said, and she was ...