What is the name of your state? IL
This happened in Missouri but we live in Illinois.
My Husband works in construction and was hurt on the job last month. A younger, less experienced guy decided to ignore protocol and try to play superman, resulting in him tipping an entire metal cart containing a yard of cement onto my husband’s leg, doing damage to his knee. He was taken to the ER, went to the Dr several times and ultimately, returned to work about 3 weeks later. The day after the accident at his follow up appointment with the workers comp Dr, I was present when the safety official had said that if he could avoid filling the pain medication prescription, it would help them avoid filing a claim. That sounded shady to me but I was OK with that because they agreed to pay him his premium shift versus regular 40 hours. They promised to take care of him… he even offered to come sit in the job trailer and do safety handouts just so he could get paid. They said not to worry, he will be taken care of.
Once he went back to work, he received his first check and it was short – only 1/3 of what he was promised. Long story short, he disputed it, went over the project manager’s head because the amount of money was large and that day was told not to report back to that jobsite, that they’d find him another “home” to go to. It’s been more than 3 weeks now and after tens of messages to the hiring boss, he was basically told that he wouldn’t be allowed to go back to the other job because they were upset that he went over their heads. Now he is officially unemployed.
Does he have a case for wrongful termination against this company? All he wants to do is WORK but he is not eligible for unemployment and they’ve really screwed him over here. We cannot survive without his checks and it wasn’t even his fault that he was injured – that guy has not lost any pay or work time and is still employed, yet he hurt more than 3 guys directly with his actions on that jobsite.
This happened in Missouri but we live in Illinois.
My Husband works in construction and was hurt on the job last month. A younger, less experienced guy decided to ignore protocol and try to play superman, resulting in him tipping an entire metal cart containing a yard of cement onto my husband’s leg, doing damage to his knee. He was taken to the ER, went to the Dr several times and ultimately, returned to work about 3 weeks later. The day after the accident at his follow up appointment with the workers comp Dr, I was present when the safety official had said that if he could avoid filling the pain medication prescription, it would help them avoid filing a claim. That sounded shady to me but I was OK with that because they agreed to pay him his premium shift versus regular 40 hours. They promised to take care of him… he even offered to come sit in the job trailer and do safety handouts just so he could get paid. They said not to worry, he will be taken care of.
Once he went back to work, he received his first check and it was short – only 1/3 of what he was promised. Long story short, he disputed it, went over the project manager’s head because the amount of money was large and that day was told not to report back to that jobsite, that they’d find him another “home” to go to. It’s been more than 3 weeks now and after tens of messages to the hiring boss, he was basically told that he wouldn’t be allowed to go back to the other job because they were upset that he went over their heads. Now he is officially unemployed.
Does he have a case for wrongful termination against this company? All he wants to do is WORK but he is not eligible for unemployment and they’ve really screwed him over here. We cannot survive without his checks and it wasn’t even his fault that he was injured – that guy has not lost any pay or work time and is still employed, yet he hurt more than 3 guys directly with his actions on that jobsite.