Ashley Furniture Manager Gets Trial Over Leave for Son’s Asthma

A jury must determine if an Ashley Furniture operator in Alabama interfered with a employee’s rights under federal law to take time off to care for her child, who has asthma, a federal court ruled.

Red Mountain Retail Inc. which owns and operates several Ashley locations in the state, was wrong that the time Katura Williams says she wasted complying with its requirement that she provide a doctor’s note each time her son had an asthma attack wasn’t a sufficient injury to recover under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ...