The Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office is entitled to summary judgment on a legal assistant’s Family and Medical Leave Act retaliation claim alleging she was terminated after requesting leave to care for her sick mother, a Florida federal district court ruled. Although her termination occurred 17 days after her FMLA request, the court found that her employer had legitimate nondiscriminatory reasons—her attending an unapproved volunteer event against company policy and dishonesty related to her remote work environment—to terminate her employment. Additionally, she’s taken leave in the past without suffering any consequences and failed to demonstrate that the reasons for her ...
Count Binface has corrected Nadhim Zahawi after he claimed the Clacton by-election candidate had received a 180,000 donation from businessman Dale Vince. Last Friday, on the morning the results we...