Sunday, March 22, 2009

One way to save money

From the Raw Story comes the tale of a fairly common corporate practice, not just at BoA.
Holly Swift of Owls Head, Maine, was on the mend from her surgery in late July 2006 when she was contacted by the bank and told that she was fired. Asked the cause of her dismissal, Bank of America told her simply, “job abandonment.” She was confused. Her physician had complied with all of the bank's requests for information about her ongoing limitations and reasons for being out of work. Not only were all her papers in order; Swift was within the 26 weeks short term disability leave allowed under bank policy.

The recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Margaret Kravchuk dealt with breaking down the false assertions made by Bank of America after her dismissal. Kravchuk named as “circumstantial evidence of bias” that the occupational health nurse at Bank of America who oversaw Swift's short term disability leave was “consistently evaluated in terms of her ability to control costs related to disability leave.” In the court document, Kravchuk added, “Bank of America misrepresented to the Maine Human Rights Commission the fact that it had marked Swift as ineligible for rehire.”
It is a sad situation for Ms. Swift but fortunately senior management does not have to face such perils. Summary termination is reserved for the peons.

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