On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:16:15 PM UTC-6, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/1/14, 9:10 PM, Poco Loco wrote:

On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:07:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



On 2/1/14, 7:00 PM, Califbill wrote:

"F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/1/14, 6:32 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

On 2/1/2014 6:08 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

On 2/1/14, 5:59 PM, Tim wrote:

On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:05:54 AM UTC-6, F.O.A.D. wrote:





What, that we have a country that allows corporations to fire someone



because they get sick? What a wonderful country.





What does the wrong doing of company have to do with this country?

Does she not have a legal team working on the situation? The article

says she does...





In most more rational western countries, the woman wouldn't have been

fired because she took ill, because her health insurance would not have

been something supplied via her employer. But that's the way we allow it

to be in this country...fired because you got sick and might impact the

company's health insurance premiums. *That* is sick.







Was that the reason she was fired? I don't know because her lawsuit

hasn't hit the courts yet and we haven't heard what the company has to say.



That said though, I agree, it's yet another example of why businesses

making widgets shouldn't be the provider or even administrator of health

insurance plans. Government passing laws that force businesses to

retain employees even as the health insurance premiums rise

exponentially isn't doing anything to help anybody.





Indeed, health insurance should not be subject to the employer's whim.

Neither should defined benefit pensions. Too many workers have been

screwed out of pensions because their employers used the funds for

something else or allowed unfunded liabilities to skyrocket.











Sort of like the unfunded public pensions? How many cities have or are

going to declare bankruptcy over unfunded liabilities?







I don't recall excluding public employers from my comment about unfunded

pension liabilities.



My local union's pension fund does not allow unfunded liabilities.

Adjustments are made in other areas when necessary.



Damn shame Detroit wasn't run by your local union.





It's a sad example, as are the examples of many corporations that have

screwed their employees out of their pensions.

Harry, don't think corporations are the lone rangers...

http://www.workforcefreedom.com/blog...scam-taxpayers