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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Case: Wage & Hour/Family and Medical Leave (ND Ohio) - Bloomberg Law

A federal court in Ohio granted summary judgment to FCA US, LLC on the Family Medical Leave Act claim of a former employee whose denied two-day FMLA request subsequently resulted in his termination for attendance violations in 2018, since the claim which wasn’t timely disclosed by the employee in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy is barred by judicial estoppel. FCA US, LLC has shown the employee knew of the FMLA claim, and he had a motive to conceal it because of his bankruptcy plan, the court said. The employee hasn’t demonstrated that he lacked bad faith in the effectiveness of his ...

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