Case: Wage & Hour/FMLA Retaliation (E.D. Va.)

July 1, 2021, 3:59 p.m.

A customer service representative at Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC is not eligible for a lawsuit over her claim that she was fired in retaliation for taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for her cancerous mother instead of her admittedly her season ticket was forged 33 times, a federal district court in Virginia ruled. Despite being fired just four days after her application for FMLA vacation, she admitted that she had asked her supervisors to change her start time in the company’s time tracking system so she wouldn’t be flagged too late on the days …

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