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Local News - Local News - February 28, 2013
Providence Health Care worker's firing was improper, state Supreme Court finds
Sacred Heart violated family medical leave act, justices say in split ruling

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

The Washington state Supreme Court has found in a 5-4 ruling that Providence Health Care improperly terminated an employee here under provisions of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

Dissenting Supreme Court justices contended that the dismissal of the employee, Robert Chaney, had more to do with his inability to perform work because of prescription medicine he was taking.

The Feb. 21 ruling remanded the case back to Spokane County Superior Court for further pr...


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