Calif. Jury Awards Occupational Therapist More Than $9M In Protected Leave Suit

( January 22, 2024, 9:00 AM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California jury returned a verdict of $9,372,000 for an occupational therapist in a California Family Rights Act (CFRA) retaliation case in which the worker alleged that after taking protected leave to care for her son she returned to find that she had been transitioned from to a per diem position and had been replaced with a less-qualified employee who was 41 years her junior....