Sounds bad but only one side of the story is told here.
It also sounds like somebody at Hilton is brain dead. The bad P/r alone is going to cost a ton. Dumb
Hmmm....may be a pattern here involving Hilton...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614944/posts
You're correct about only one side. If the story is basically correct, however, it is negative in more ways than one: it just furnishes (legitimate) ammunition to those economically ignorant who want more regulation like the Family Leave Act.
Yes. Bad people get cancer too.
For all we know, she is a boozer that was barely being kept on the books as it was. She may have gotten drunk and failed to show up for work for a week, ended up in an emergency room where the discovered cancer, and then decided that she could get a free vacation from the deal.
There is no way to know with the information provided.
That's usually the case in these types of stories. This may be exactly what is being portrayed... OR she could have already been in line for termination when all of her illness stuff came down.