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Posted By: Larry In Response To: Re: I am new to all of tthis (Chriistine)
Monday, 28 March 2005, at 1:50 a.m.
I could not give better advice then Rick K. did. His advice and comments are outstanding! After what you posted here, talking to a lawyer is extremely important.
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> Hi and thank's for the advise. We did EVERYTHING down to the letter
> because his boss was giving him a hard time at work. I would have to get
> into the whole long story and I think it would bore you to death. Short
> story is when she doct his pay an hour for giving blood at a blood drive
> his company was giving and no one else got did I called the equal
> employment comission and they jumped all over her.It stated in the
> handbook that ALL employees got paid while giving blood. she said it was
> because he had already taken to much time off that week and he was
> supposed to ask her for permission. He WAS still working at the time under
> FMLA he was just taking up to an three or four hours a week off to take me
> to appointments then either going into work late or going back to work
> depending on the time the appointment was. (does that make sence) And to
> clear that up YES he did tell her ahead of time when he needed to take the
> time off it was like he would go in and say look I have to leave in an
> hour. They new at least a week ahead of time. The thing is we don't know
> why she fired him. She said that his accounting practices (he worked in
> accounts payable paying literaly millions of dollars in bills every week)
> weren't living up to their standards. He worked there for 3 years with a
> total of 6 mistakes in the whole time he worked there, and they were all
> in the first 3 months of when he started. (He actually for all intent and
> purposes, worked there 4 1/2 years but we had to move to Texas for a year
> when his Grandfather died to help care for his Grtandmother. When we came
> back he was hired right back on the spot!! By a different boss)
> The hard thing is that we live in Maine and it is a free will state. That
> means if your boss doesn't like that color of your hair they can fire you.
> I haven't spoken to an attorney yet but I am really thinking about it now,
> because he called the PH department to see if they could at least tell him
> WHY he was fired (you know if he made a BIG mistake or what have you) well
> the woman that fired him never gave the reason. He tried to colect
> unemployment and here in Maine they do what is called a fact finding
> interview on the phone were they case worker calls both party's and gets
> both sides of the story well she got my husbands side and tried, I think
> she said in her letter 4 times, to get ahold of the other party and never
> got an answer back. So I am going to take all of this and find an attorney
> and see if there is something we can do. But like I said we live in a free
> will state so I don't know if it will work. (I know this sounds awful but
> This company that he worked for is a MAJOR company here and they are all
> about "family values".Wouldn't the media like to get their hands
> on this one.)
> I think I need one of my own BLOG?? Is it? pages. LOL ;)
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