Faulty communications over just how much unpaid Family andMedical Leave Act leave, and how much paid maternity leave, an employee was entitled tohave landed her employer in court.
HR Dive reports that information in the employer’shandbook on the issue of leave had two separate sections: onediscussed employees’ entitlements to 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA leave,while the other offered workers eight weeks of paid maternityleave, with the option to take four more weeks unpaid.
The employee, according to the report, submitted a formalrequest for time off via e-mail. Titling the e-mail “Maternityleave,” she asked to use accrued vacation first, followed by thematernity leave specified in the handbook.
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