TX 14th: Early Termination Not Retaliatory

The Fourteenth District of the Texas Court of Appeals ruled that terminating an employee one day early is not sufficient evidence of a retaliatory motive. In English v. Dillard Dep't Stores, Inc., No. 14-04-00197-CV, 11/03/2005, Jake English, a delivery driver for Dillard Department Stores, was injured and filed a workers' compensation claim. English took a leave of absence under Dillard's Leave of Absence (LOA) policy, which had a maximum absence length of six months. A Separation Data Form indicated that his leave of absence began on June 22, 2000, but English claimed that his leave of a...