Case: Wage & Hour/FMLA Retaliation (N.D. Miss.)

Summary judgment isn’t warranted on a college vice president and dean’s claim that Mississippi Valley State University terminated him in retaliation for his refusing to encourage an administrative assistant to drop her EEOC charges alleging discrimination, and for his refusing to fill out forms for her Family and Medical Leave Act leave in her absence, because he believed it to be fraudulent, a federal court ruled. When the temporal proximity is considered with the disputed facts leading up to his termination, genuine disputes of material facts exist, so summary judgment isn’t proper as to his FMLA and Title VII retaliation ...