If only this was the case. Employers (Mine) can terminate employees for no reason. My wife has diabetes, disabled from back surgery, had 6 bypasses, and a stroke. My employer terminated me because of the cost of health insurance, but of course just told me not to come back. My wife had not even suffered from the diabetes, stroke, or bypasses at that point, only the back surgery and heart stents. I did not miss days because of my wife's illness, only cost them too much for health insurance. Now my wife and my family are wards of the state for insurance. We have to stay in poverty to keep my wife insured. I bring this up at interviews because I can't afford to accept a job and be terminated when the employer finds out about my baggage three months later and my wife no longer is covered thru Social Security Disability. Many of my friends have had this happen to them. No ones job should be determined by their health, but by their performance in that job. The same job did not give me a raise for two years because of the same rising health insurance costs. There was never a complaint about my work. These ideas are great in theory, but employers have the laws behind what they do, not the employee!!!!!!
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If only this was the case. Employers (Mine) can terminate employees for no reason. My wife has diabetes, disabled from back surgery, had 6 bypasses, and a stroke. My employer terminated me because of the cost of health insurance, but of course just told me not to come back. My wife had not even suffered from the diabetes, stroke, or bypasses at that point, only the back surgery and heart stents. I did not miss days because of my wife's illness, only cost them too much for health insurance. Now my wife and my family are wards of the state for insurance. We have to stay in poverty to keep my wife insured. I bring this up at interviews because I can't afford to accept a job and be terminated when the employer finds out about my baggage three months later and my wife no longer is covered thru Social Security Disability. Many of my friends have had this happen to them. No ones job should be determined by their health, but by their performance in that job. The same job did not give me a raise for two years because of the same rising health insurance costs. There was never a complaint about my work. These ideas are great in theory, but employers have the laws behind what they do, not the employee!!!!!!
August 21, 2010 - 8:49pmThis Comment
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