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My husband's boss is trying to make him quit
Wed, 03/07/2007 - 13:39Topic: Advocate for Epilepsy
After beating prostate cancer and switching meds & all that goes with that, my husband was able to return to his job of over 20 years. Now his boss is making his life at work so stressful that he nearly seized last nite and is jerky today. She is constantly undercutting his work, making up stupid lists w/priorties and then giving him other work to do so he can't get the lists done or even his actual job.
We think she is trying to force him to quit, but he can't - we are so deep in the hole from all the other stuff, and he's 50 years old, it's not like he can just bounce out there and pick up on any old job-he knows construction, was a tiler in his younger days, but thats work for a younger guy.
She has him so paranoid, he can't talk to anyone about how she treats him on the threat of dismissal. Does anyone know of anything we can do to stop her. I'm sure it's because of his epilepsy, he's started having seizures again after none for about 13 yrs, 2 at work.
They pay his health insurance and I think they want to get out of that as well. Any suggestions would really help, we are at our wits end, and every seizure (gran mal) he has takes more of him away from me, & I don't know how many more he can take, it's taking longer & longer for him to come back.
Re: Hi Jesse, The thing is that
Submitted by DAWWN on Fri, 2007-09-07 - 19:25
Disability Advocacy Work With Networking (DAWWN) http://home.earthlink.net/~dawwn Hi Kathy, I gave you some details in my email. I am sending this out to the list as well and including some further details re: the ADA First of all, be aware that your husband, like myself, qualifies as 'disabled' by the ADA due to having "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual;" Title I of the ADA applies to employers with 15 or more employees. However, there are also protections outside of Title I. Title V, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), and the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1991 have more protections of rights contained in them. Two of these that appear to be directly related to this situation are: (a) Retaliation. - No person shall discriminate against any individual because such individual has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by this chapter or because such individual made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this chapter. (b) Interference, coercion, or intimidation. - It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any individual in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of his or her having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of his or her having aided or encouraged any other individual in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by this chapter. Also, you mention a museum. Find out if they receive any federal money. This opens up the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. That saved me from job loss in 1982. peace, jesse