When a company terminates its HR director the day she returns from FMLA leave, chances are good that a lawsuit will ensue. The roughly $120,000 that G. Scott Fiddler’s client won in a Feb. 11 final judgment may not break any records, but he relishes the victory.
“It was not a large jury verdict but one of the most satisfying,” said Fiddler, a member of the Law Office of G. Scott Fiddler in Houston. He won a labor and employment case that he said involved overcoming the company trying to argue that it fired Carroll not because she took FMLA leave but because other employees didn’t like her.
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