NEISENDORF v. LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
Employer has no obligation to make accommodations to permit employee who has taken leave under California Family Rights Act to return to work within the allowed leave period; where employee did not return within the 12-week period to which she was entitled, employer was entitled to terminate her at-will employment as a matter of law. Where employment was terminated for performance-related reasons, which plaintiff failed to show were pretextual or discriminatory, plaintiff failed to establish a triable issue on her claim that she was terminated in retaliation for exercising her rights under CFRA. Public policy protecting workers' rights to receive all earned wages does not prohibit employer from implementing bonus plan in which bonuses are paid only to persons employed by company on payout date, thus permitting employer to avoid payment of bonuses to employees terminated for cause between end of fiscal year in which bonus was earned and the payout date.
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