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  1. September 27, 2024

    FMLA Claims Against NM Health Dept. Tossed

    A New Mexico federal judge ruled that a former human resources labor analyst's supervisor terminated him for violating the department's absence policies, dismissing the worker's claims that he was fired and retaliated against following his hospitalization for kidney disease.

  2. February 28, 2024

    NM Health Dept. Says Worker In Bias Suit Fired For Behavior

    The New Mexico public health department said that it passed on promoting a former business operations specialist supervisor because someone else was more qualified and that it terminated the worker for inappropriate behavior, urging a federal court to grant it a win in his disability bias suit.

  3. February 09, 2023

    New Mexico Health Dept. Can't Escape Disability Bias Suit

    A New Mexico federal judge said Thursday that the state's public health department can't avoid a suit claiming it fired two brothers because of their congenital kidney disease, finding the ex-employees properly filed presuit charges with the state employment bias watchdog.