My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Ohio
I was just fired from my job of 12 years yesterday for using too much FMLA. The problem is I used this back in July of 07' when I had my third child. I took 8 weeks off, and the last two were denied by Short Term. I was not aware of this until I went back to work. I have had two other children and took the same amount of time off and was never denied it before. I was told by our benefits coordinator that I had 180 days to contest the Short Term but I had enough FMLA to cover it. So I didn't contest it. Now 9 months later they are telling me that I was over on my FMLA and that I didn't have enough time in July to take off, and that is why they let me go. Of course the benefits coordinator is now saying that she never told me that I had enough to cover it. My question is why did it take them 9 months to figure this out, and are they allowed to do this??::![]()

