HR Management & Compliance

News Notes: Helping Elderly Parent Relocate Doesn’t Qualify For Family Leave

 

A California Court of Appeal has ruled that Beverly Hospital in Montebello didn’t violate the state family leave law by terminating a physical therapist who missed work to help her seriously ill mother move to a new apartment. Marjorie Pang claimed her time off was protected because she was providing psychological care for a family member with a serious health condition. But the court threw out Pang’s lawsuit, ruling that she wasn’t providing or participating in medical care for her mother. Pang’s mother wasn’t moving due to a change in her medical treatment, such as to a skilled nursing facility, but only so that she could continue to live unassisted without medical care.

 

 

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