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Originally Posted by Minnesota_Flyer  and the opinions of state labor boards are totally irrelevant. Compliants under FMLA are brought before the federal Department of Labor and/or a federal court. |
Correct. I said state labor boards when I meant district office for the DOL. At Pinnacle, we referred all pilots with FMLA problems to the MI DOL office. Several cases were resolved when the DOL office called PCL management and informed them that they were handling FMLA in an illegal manner (denying legal claims, not handling claims privately, etc...). A simple call from the DOL will scare many companies into complying with the law. Others (Velo's company, for example) are trying to get by on a technicality.