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