An employee who claimed she was fired because she took time off to care for her ill sister failed to prove her discrimination claim under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), a California appeals court ruled.
The employer is a payment services company in Walnut Creek, Calif., that hired the plaintiff’s younger sister as an accounting associate in December 2014. The plaintiff was hired in February 2015 to work in the company’s call center and subsequently moved to the position of online risk fraud analyst. According to their statements, the sisters lived together, and the plaintiff had acted “like a mother” by raising her younger sister.
