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ldquo;He filled out the doctor’s section himself.” Sounds like fraud, right? Maybe. But if you fire someone on that hunch without following the FMLA’s rules, you could be the one in
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rouble. TL;DR A federal court refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former employee who claimed he was fired for submitting an improperly completed FMLA certification. Even if the form looked suspicious, the court emphasized that the employer still had to follow the FMLA’s process—including giving the employee a chance to fix it. Skip that step, and you might be the one
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iolating federal law.
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