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In Weaver v. Netflix, Inc., a federal trial court rejected an Oregon employer’s argument that it terminated an employee for performance reasons and determined a trial was necessary to weigh the employee’s claims that she was terminated for requesting leave under the FMLA and its state law counterpart, the Oregon Family Leave Act . Though the employee had performance and absenteeism issues prior to the requested leave, the court determined that the timing of the termination, less than two weeks after the leave was requested, was sufficiently suspicious that a jury needed to resolve the case.

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