Nonprofit defeats retaliation claim on summary judgment

A assistant to the chief financial officer of a nonprofit organization who was passed over for promotion to the CFO position and locked out of her computer access while out on medical leave has lost a claim for retaliation under the Family and Medical Leave Act.  A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has held that she showed a prima facie case of retaliation but failed to show that the agency’s purported non-discriminatory reasons for its actions were merely pretextual.