Court Dashes Kmart Bid To Drop FMLA Suit

By Melissa Lipman (January 8, 2009, 12:00 AM EST) -- A federal judge has ruled that a Kmart Corp. ex-employee's suit accusing the company of violating the Family and Medical Leave Act when it fired him after he missed work to take his son to the emergency room can proceed, saying the plaintiff sufficiently demonstrated that his son's injury qualified as a "serious health condition" under the FMLA....

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