Case: Wage & Hour/Sick Depart (W.D. Mich.)

August 19, 2021, 6:30 p.m.

American International Foods Inc. has the right to dismiss a request for interference with reinstatement under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act of 2020 by an accounts payable worker who contracted the coronavirus and was laid off while on vacation when she returned to work Wanted to return symptoms subsided, but the employee’s remaining retaliation under the EPSLA and her claim under Michigan’s COVID-19 Employment Rights Act of 2020 may continue, a Michigan federal court ruled. The EPSLA lacks a prohibition of the Family Medical Leave Act, which expressly forbids employers to …

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