United States Seventh Circuit

While employer with less than fifty employees is not required to provide coverage under the Family and Medical Leave Act, employee's reliance upon employer's benefit descriptions and procedures referencing the FMLA creates an issue of fact about whether employer intended to provide FMLA-like coverage.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2001
• Decided 05/30/2001
• Published 05/30/2001

Judges

• COFFEY, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, ROVNER, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. Slevin (argued), Vonachen, Lawless, Trager & Slevin, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter R. Bulmer (argued), Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.