Chaney v. Providence Health Care

¶1 The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654, and its implementing *581regulations clearly direct when an employer must return an employee to his job. The triggering event is a return-to-work certification by the employee’s physician. Here, the employee provided his physician’s return-to-work certification with the caveat “as soon as Employer allows.” We conclude that the certification was sufficient to trigger the employer’s obligation to return the employee to work and we therefore reverse the judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the employer.

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