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Originally Posted by ballerina
Maybe your husband should refrain from discussing his personal life at work. I am a little confused about his boss not paying for a "fake " disorder. Why would your husband's boss pay for any medical bills. If your husband has health insurance and you are on it how is your husband's boss involved?
If your husband is concerned about what his co-workers have been saying about your health issues then why did he discuss your application for SSDI?????Just a thought.
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Originally Posted by fmichael
Dear Cindi -
Sadly, I've heard of too many places where a single trip to HR to complain about a boss sets someone up for outright retaliation if not termination based on completely spurious grounds. I'm with Pete, the matter should be handled as discretely as possible but through an attorney who is recognized for his/her work in representing plaintiff in employment litigation.
Unless your husband can be personally referred to someone with experience in the field, you may want to check out the Martindale-Hubbell search engine at http://www.martindale.com/Find-Lawye...Law-Firms.aspx And if you use the search engine, I would look for attorneys in your area with ratings of "A-V" or "B-V" with a practice area including "Labor and Employment" and preferably a sub-specialty in "Employee Rights." An explanation of the ratings system can be found here http://www.martindale.com/Products_a...w_Ratings.aspx
The site is absolutely free. Martindale-Hubbell has been around for 140 years, primarily providing a publishing peer ratings of attorneys, so that a lawyer could simply consult a single set of books for the names, specialties and ratings of attorneys in every city/county in the country, should s/he need to find local co-counsel quickly. (The firm is now a division of the legal search engine giant Lexis-Nexis, which itself is a division of Reed Elsevier, a publicly traded European publisher, with headquarters in London and Amsterdam.)
And for what it's worth, as to your husband - the employee - it is my sense that it's not so much a matter of ADA violations or the like, as much as state-law based claims of a "hostile work environment," except to the extent your husband's manager has access to what should be your private insurance records, and is then broadcasting his distorted take on that information through the work site, in which case there may be federal claims for HIPPA violations which could then be asserted in your name. Dunno.
Good luck.
Mike |
The problem with my husband's boss is that he used to be one of our nest friends. We did a lot together and living ina very small town, everyone knows your business. I mean EVERYBODY, my husband does not talk about my situation at all...it's other people who see me out at the grocery store or at college football games. I just don't thing that anyone has a right tp tell me where I can go and what I can do. My doctor is the one who says it;s time for SSDI, so I am following suit. Does it say in the disablity guidelines that I have to stop living completely? I gave up a job that I truly loved and worked very hard at to get where I was, but the stress level is so high and the job was extremely physical that I couldn't keep myself or my students safe.
I wrote my post in such a panicked state that it does seem quite confusing. My husband's boss has seen me with my can, with heating pads on my legs and the whole nine yards, however the part that hurts me the most is that I was born with Cerebral Palsy and was made fun of as a child. It just brings back all those feelings. People still have to comment about how I walk and tell me to "cut it out!" when I am tired and shuffle my feet.
I thank you all for your advice. I have talked to th ACLU and Americans with Disabilites Act and the both told me that it is against the law to harrass my husband about my medical conditions.
