The US Department of Labor has recovered $47,728 in back wages and liquidated damages for two former employees of two separate Tennessee-based healthcare providers that violated their rights to protected leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found Nashville’s Wellpath LLC illegally fired a medical office assistant – working at the Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte, North Carolina – after the employee exercised their right to request and use FMLA-protected leave for a qualifying health condition. In a separate investigation, the agency found Whites Creek Operating Group – operating as Whites Creek Wellness & Rehabilitation in Whites Creek, Tennessee – illegally fired a housekeeper after the employee exercised their right to request and use FMLA-protected leave for a qualifying health condition.
