A mother was entitled to take time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act in order to make day care arrangements for her autistic child, a federal judge held in an opinion issued the same day as the case was closed after settling.
The effective change to Rachel Wegelin’s working hours meant that she had to find a new day care center for her daughter, Carolyn, for which she was entitled to take leave under the FMLA, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in Wegelin v. Reading Hospital and Medical Center.
