Employee Fired for Donating a Kidney

A mother’s attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn’t apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Claudia Rendon , a 41-year-old Philadelphia mother, says she was fired from her job in a school admissions office after she took time off to donate a kidney to her son. Rendon’s employer, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, put her back on salary Tuesday after a media firestorm .

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Employee Fired for Donating a Kidney