In the 30 years since former President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act into law, a number of lawsuits have set precedents for how the protected leave legislation is interpreted.
Attorneys who specialize in the statute and its regulations broke down some of the most noteworthy FMLA rulings over the years.
2002: Retroactive designation
The FMLA has been the subject of “very few” U.S. Supreme Court cases, according to Jeff Nowak, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson.
