In Raimondi v. Wyoming County, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67653 (M.D. Pa. May 24, 2016), the court deconstructed an employer’s mishandling of an employee’s request for leave and in doing so provides employers with insightful, step-by-step guidance on how to handle requests for leave when evaluating whether such requests qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the act is not specifically mentioned by the employee.
Travel to Care For Sick Parents
The plaintiff, Debra Raimondi, was employed by Wyoming County as director of its 911 center. In June 2014, Raimondi traveled to her parent’s home in Indiana after her father, who had recently had surgery and was in a nursing home, requested that Raimondi come home to care for her mother. Raimondi told the county that her father was ill and her mother “might have broken her hand or something” and requested leave “to get ready for her dad to come home from the hospital.”
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