Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Smithfield Packing Co., Inc.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided March 14, 2008No. RWT 06cv2811PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROGER W. TITUS, District Judge.
On September 20, 2004, Plaintiff Rodriguez felt ill and left work early. All that she told her supervisors at Smithfield Packing Co., Inc. (“Smithfield”) was that she was “sick” and that she was leaving for a previously scheduled doctor’s appointment. She claims that she called Smith-field the next morning and left a message that she “couldn’t go to work at the time being.” Rodriguez then missed eight scheduled shifts without contacting her employer directly, asserting that she instead sent messages to her supervisors through co-workers…
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