What can employees do who believe that their rights under FMLA have been violated?

(a) Any employee, or his authorized representative, may file a complaint with the Labor Department if he believes that: (1) his employer has interfered with, restrained or denied the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any rights provided under the Act; (2) his employer discharged or caused to be discharged, or in any manner discriminated against such employee for opposing any practice made unlawful by the Act or because such employee has exercised the rights afforded to such employee under the Act; (3) his employer has violated any provision of the Act with respect to such employee; or (4) he has been discharged or discriminated against in any manner by an employer who is subject to the Act because such individual: (A) has filed any charge, or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to the Act; (B) has given, or is about to give, any information in connection with any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under the Act; or (C) has testified, or is about to testify, in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under the Act. The Labor Department will inform any employee who files a complaint, pursuant to this section, that involves disability relating to pregnancy of her right to file a complaint with the commission on human rights and opportunities as provided in section 46a-82 of the general statutes. (b) Complaints shall be filed with the Labor Department on such form(s) as are prescribed and furnished by the Labor Department or by letter. The Labor Department may seek any additional information it deems necessary to initiate an investigation. (c) In order to be considered timely filed, all complaints must be received by the Labor Department or postmarked within one hundred and eighty days of the employer action which prompted the complaint, described in subsection (a) of this section. Any complaint received or postmarked after such one hundred and eighty day period may be considered timely filed for good cause, as defined in subsection (d) of this section. (d) "Good cause" means any circumstances which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, would prevent a reasonably prudent individual in the exercise of due diligence from timely filing his complaint. ()