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.
You're just the kind of person ruining the judicial system. You're already making a multimillion dollar (clearly disproportionate to any damages) judgment based on lots of emotion and scant evidence.
Here at a local business when someone is very, very ill and have to take lots of sick leave, the other employees will give that person some or all of their sick leave so the person will be able to take off when needed. A very good policy.