Recently, in Seeger v. Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.(CBT), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that CBT’s “honest belief” that Seeger had engaged in disability fraud shielded it from liability for retaliatory termination under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Seeger, a long time employee with CBT, developed a herniated disc in August 2007, and … Continue reading
Last week on February 24th, the 6th Circuit affirmed an Ohio lower court’s holding in only considering the racially charged incidents which were directly experienced or known about, and not aggregating all of the claims by a group of black employees in a discrimination suit. In 2005, SuperValu and several of its warehouse supervisory employees … Continue reading
