First of all, any employer who would terminate an employee due to a sick child in the hospital that is attended by you is a piece of stinking garbage.

I have little in the know on the FMLA, but I do know it does not address a one time or even sporadic call offs to tend to a sick child.

If I am wrong on that someone can jump in!!

In the back of my mind, it seems a few states had statutory laws prohibiting termination of a parent/guardian who took off to attend to a child's illness and emergency??

I don't think TX was one, but I have seen similar laws out there.

It is probably a legal discharge, but since the facts are unique you can always consult an employment law attorney in TX.

I hope your child is okay anyway, despite being treated like dirt by MR. Big shot employer.

That reminds me of a case around here sometime ago. A Parent called off, and was terminated, to attend his son who had to go to the emergency room, and according to the paper's account of what the employer told the Dad, and I will try to quote "If the kid is not DEAD, I want you in here"!!!

That was nothing short of constitutional fighting words and if the Father would have retaliated against the employer, they had better not have sat me on the criminal jury, I would have laughed at the employer.

People like that are nothing but stinking garbage. POWER, they have to show how much they have over the little man.

Best wishes,

BOR (Bill of Rights)