Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Staples to pay fired employee $275K in wages, benefits and damages after failing to inform him of job protections to care for ill family member

WHD News Release: [06/04/2015]
Contact Name: Michael D’Aquino or Jason Surbey
Phone Number: (678) 237-0630 or (202) 693-4668
Email: D'Aquino.Michael@dol.gov or Surbey.Jason@dol.gov
Release Number: 15-0540-ATL


US Labor Dept. alleged that Staples failed to comply with Family and Medical Leave Act

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jeffrey Angstadt didn't want days off to relax. In September 2010 and over the months that followed, the furniture sales executive told his employer, Staples Contract and Commercial, Inc., a subsidiary of Staples, Inc., that he needed to take leave to care for his critically ill wife. While Angstadt was eligible for federal workplace protections for those coping with the illness of a family member, no one at Staples notified him as the law requires.

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