Employment – Title VII – Disparate treatment – FMLA

A plaintiff sales associate for a gas station and convenience store could not hold his employer liable for disparate treatment after his hours were reduced when he returned from a medical leave.

Cham v. Station Operators, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-182-12) (24 pages) (Lynch, C.J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from a decision by Lisi, J., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Mark P. Gagliardi for the plaintiff-appellant; Neal J. McNamara, with whom Nixon Peabody was on brief, for the defendant-appellee (Docket No. 11-1988) (July 16, 2012).