United States Ninth Circuit

Under 29 USC 2612(a)(1), an employer must inform its employees which of the four methods it will use to calculate the 12-weeks of leave under the Family Medical Leave Act before it can use that calculation against an employee; otherwise the method most favorable to the employee applies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2001
• Decided 08/08/2001
• Published 08/08/2001

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  REINHARDT, TASHIMA and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William R. Hobson, Hobson & Ringler, Tempe, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel C. Barr, Brown & Bain, P.A., Phoenix, Arizona, for the defendant-appellee.