An on-call business analyst at a university medical center texts her supervisor to request a change in work rotations because she needs to be with her father in an emergency room. Does this work as Family and Medical Leave Act notice?

Not according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, says Seyfarth Shaw senior counsel James R. Beyer. He discusses the case and what employers can learn from it in a post on the firm’s “Employment Law Lookout” blog.