If you need time off for the birth of a child or for treatment of a serious medical condition, your job may be protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act. 

Unfortunately this important Act doesn’t cover all employees but if you have worked for a large employer (50 or more employees) for one year or more, it might cover you and allow you to take important time off of work without being fired. Contact us for more information.

Siro & Moyer Settles Employee’s FMLA Case Against Former Employer for $100,000.

In January, 2006, attorney Rik Siro settled a case brought by an employee against his employer for violating the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Plaintiff claimed that the employer failed to give him his job back when he returned from a hospitalization and recovery from heart bypass surgery. The employee was fired the day he returned to work from his FMLA protected leave, even though he had been an effective, successful employee before he got sick. Plaintiff was prepared to prove that the firing violated his FMLA rights to get his job back on his return to work within the 12 week protected leave period.