Does T-Mobile Violate the Family and Medical Leave Act?
In the last couple of weeks we’ve heard many stories about how T-Mobile may violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). A recent entry on jobvent.com describes how a T-Mobile employee was out on leave on FMLA. “and was subsiquently (sic) contacted which is against their policies and harrassed. Once I returned to work, I was forced to quit and told that all of my fmla leave was going to count as no call no shows just because they felt like it wasn’t a good reason. Even though I had the email from corporate showing I was approved for leave. To top it off they then decided not to pay out the bonus I had already earned just because I quit before the pay out date.” We heard similar stories from other workers who had dificulties getting their FMLA time appoved and once they were back at work, they had to deal with disadvantages and increased micro-management that made clear to them – and others – that the company does not want their employees to exercise their legal right to take time o
