A Reading Hospital office worker’s Family and Medical Leave Act claim has allowed the Third Circuit to set a standard for when an employee’s right to return to work is triggered.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the trial court’s decision to grant summary judgment to the hospital, holding that a jury could find that the note Vanessa Budhun submitted from her doctor stating that she would be able to return to work could trigger the hospital’s responsibility to reinstate her and that the hospital interfered with that right when it told her that she couldn’t return.
