Employers often tread too cautiously when handling employees on FMLA leave. Despite this caution, courts will to side with an employer that terminates an employee after uncovering abuses of FMLA leave.
Case in point? Sharif v. United Airlines (4th Cir. 10/31/16).
Masoud Sharif and his wife, both employees of United Airlines, took a scheduled out-of-country vacation from March 16 through April 4. Sharif’s spouse used approved vacation time for the entire vacation. Sharif, however, was unable to obtain approved time off one day of the vacation, March 30.
