[Semper Paratus]

Sounds bad but only one side of the story is told here.

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh no, the horrors! If this woman wins, Paris won't be able to afford that HOT doggie collar.

[PeterFinn]

Hilton will not be getting any of my business any time soon. There's this tactless act and then there's Paris Hilton as my sound reasons for boycotting that firm.

[Born Conservative]

This isn't the ONLY time Hilton has been in the news this week.

[petkus]

Is she an illegal Alien?


What is Cardinal Mahony's position of this issue?

[Gay State Conservative]

They could have fired her in order to save $$$ on her health care costs.I think that there was a SOCTUS decision recently that said that employers can do that kind of thing (that is,refuse to hire,or fire,someone in order to help their bottom line).

If I'm correct,what they did to this woman may well be legal.But it still smells to high Heaven.

[lfod1776]

I smell a telephone-number verdict against Hilton. I'd love to be on the jury that gives them the bad news. They are asking for a big puntive damages award, and they will get it.

Where I work a woman has been struggling with cancer for over five years now. The management wisely just threw away the rulebook on sick leave. She works whenever she is able, and takes off when she needs to. We are all happy she is still with us.

[LibWhacker]

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Thomas said the way the company fired Kennedy is a violation of the Federal Family Medical Leave Act, a law that protects job security for people who have to take time off work because of serious medical conditions for themselves or immediate family members.

This law may be President Clinton's and the Democrat 103rd Congress' most positive legacy. The type of ruthless and short-sighted behavior Hilton Hotels Corp. is engaging in here in this case is the reason this type of intrusive legislation gets passed and expanded. Almost every government regulation was brought about by an abuse of our free market system in the pursuit of a short-term profit.

Anyone, like myself, who advocates a free and generally unregulated market place should be the first to criticize and punish this kind of malicious abuse of a loyal but seriously ill employee. As a frequent business traveler and Hilton Honors program member, Hilton and its subsidiaries just lost my business.

[rock58seg]

What is it with Hilton??? Yesterday the story about the D.C. restaurant, and now this. They must have hired Simon LeGree as CEO.