Torres v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals CA2/2
Plaintiff Rafaela Torres appeals from a judgment entered after the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (Kaiser). Torres was a hospital kitchen worker for Kaiser. In 2013 Torres took a two-week leave of absence to care for her seriously ill mother in Mexico. Shortly after returning, Torres took two months of medical leave for stress and anxiety. In 2014 Torres took a six-month medical leave of absence for shoulder surgery and recovery. When Torres returned to work in November 2014, she repeatedly requested time off in January and February 2015 to care for her mother in Mexico, who was dying. Kaiser denied each of Torres’s requests, but Torres still traveled to Mexico. When Torres failed to report for work, Kaiser classified her absence as unauthorized and subsequently terminated her.
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