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Employee exceeding 12 weeks of FMLA leave loses right to job restoration.

By Maria Danaher on January 8, 2017
Posted in FMLA

According to a federal judge in Pennsylvania, employees are not entitled to the job restoration protections of the FMLA after the statutory leave has expired, even where the employee has received permission from the employer to extend that leave. Wevodau v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al, 2017 BL 1246 (MDPA, January 4, 2017).

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