Her son's seizures, her own surgery, her mother on a ventilator - then the firing
A former Virtua Health employee has sued the health system, alleging it fired her after she sought leave to care for her family.
The worker, a former product inventory coordinator based in Camden, New Jersey, filed the complaint in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on July 29, 2026. She brings claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA) and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD), a state anti-bias law.
According to the complaint, the worker had been with Virtua since 2018 and, the filing says, worked seven years without incident. It alleges her circumstances changed over a two-month period in 2025.
The filing says she applied for intermittent FMLA leave on August 27, 2025 to care for her son, who had begun experiencing seizures. In October 2025, the complaint alleges, she developed serious medical conditions of her own. She was admitted to a Virtua-owned hospital on October 8, 2025, ran a fever the filing puts at 107 degrees, and underwent surgery on October 11, 2025. After the surgery, according to the complaint, she contracted MRSA - a drug-resistant infection - and became septic.
The complaint alleges that when she returned to work on October 15, 2025 and told her supervisor she needed help lifting heavy objects, the supervisor agreed the accommodation was necessary but took no further steps to arrange it. As a...
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