Health insurance is not mentioned.
Nope. He’ll be sued into the poorhouse.
she would have been eligible for social security disability and may, in fact, still be. I went through this with my mother a few years ago. She had to retire early from the post office. There was absolutely no way to fight her cancer and work full time and in the end, as is the case in so many of these battles, she lost after 18 months anyways. As rough as it sounds, I’m not sure I can fault Dr. Visnich for this. Carol is in a fight for her life. She can collect unemployment benefits while she puts her affairs in order and wages her battle as she sees fit.
I've dealt a lot with doctors professionally and some can be real a-holes.
Is anybody ever fired WITH pay?
Read the notice, it’s sufficiently blunt so that one may understand — this women isn’t going to get UE, this women will get state disability — significantly better than UE. She’ll also qualify for SSSI and eventually SSDI if needed.
Not only is the letter from her employer, it’s from a professional and perhaps considered somewhat expert opinion.
So while it may indeed be a blessing, the doctors attorney shouldn’t be bragging about it. It kinda stands out on it’s own.
Small firms can’t carry people while they are unproductive like large firms can.
And it sounds like this is a doctor’s office. If so, the risk of her contracting something at the doctor’s office when she is immuno-compromised would be unacceptable.
The frustrating thing in a case like that is insurance. Now your fired, so you have to pay COBRA rates.
Hopefully she has health insurance with disability benefits...
ummm, if this was really his humane intention,
why did he not have a one-on-one meeting with her, and lay out exactly what he thought the best way to deal with it was, and maybe explain what he thought the best course of action was?
instead of her receiving a handwritten note saying she’s fired?
the guy is an idiot. getting a cancer diagnosis is incredibly stressful event, especially depending on what kind of cancer it is and what stage you’re considered. LOSING a job is a huge stressful event for anyone, especially when you have no idea it’s coming.
they rank stressful events in terms of how they can damage health. losing a job ranks as one of the top ones, below losing a spouse, child, parent, terrible medical news.
for the doc to knowingly do this is beyond stupid. the argument it’s humane is as humane as if he’d have decided the humane thing was to walk over to her and put a bullet in her head.
no the cheap dr just does not want to pay sick time to his employee
That is quite different than how NASA treated my late husband back in 1972/73 when he had Hodgkin’s Disease. His co-workers gave him their sick days so he would not have to worry about missed days. He had to have treatments for 4 months and his dr discovered the drugs were “eating” holes in his stomach and he was bleeding internally. He never had any trouble after that until 2006 when he had liver cancer. We discovered the drugs from HD may have caused the LC. He died 3 months later. Look up AZ Technology which is the company he started in our basement.
I know a doc who did something similar and over half of his remaining employees quickly found other jobs and left. He lost nearly half of his patient base worth many millions of dollars a year. Plus he got a reputation as a bad boss and bad publicity to boot. This doc is incredibly myopic to not see the damage this will do to his practice. There are usually ways of handling this such as assigning another job role like the front desk or the checkout desk or changing to temporary part time work.
Geeeeeeeeeee......
Didn’t multiple conservative pundits and radio talk show hosts predict this event long before Democrats and only Democrats conspired to show this fiasco down taxpayers throats???!!!!
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I don’t know if this doctor had the employee’s best interests at heart or not. But, this story isn’t unusual at all.
Two of my in-laws were fired while fighting cancer. They both were hard workers.
My SIL worked many years for a major company, and she had life insurance through that job. Her bosses knew she had cancer because she’d been fighting it for a long time while continuing to work.
One day they fired her because she didn’t call in for a couple of days. Why didn’t she call in? Well... she didn’t call in because she was too busy dying in the hospital to make a call. It really makes you wonder about some employers.