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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Is he working for a private contracting company? How long has he worked for them?
Can he collect unemployment? Is he covered for health insurance through this employment, because sometimes if that is the case he may be layed off to lower health insurance rates or maybe liability rates. Has he taken time off for his issues? If not then there may be grounds for some kind of predudice.
As far as the holidays coming, don't let that get you down, remember at least you have money coming in to pay the necessities, many have nothing, count some of your blessings. Was the work very taxing work? It does sound fishy to me because they hired him knowing his disabilities and now they are using that for an excuse to let him go. Okay they are firing him? and not laying him off? He needs a reason in writing.
Open Eyes
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It's a government contracting company. He has never taken time off, nor have those "issues" caused any problems. Like I said, he's a hard worker and makes sure he gets the job done right. That's why it shocked us, it's so out of the blue. We were not prepared for this.
It's very true, we still have some money coming in, and we're still covered under Tricare as far as health insurance goes. We don't have dental insurance anymore though. We had that through hubby's job. I don't know the difference between firing and laying off. He was just told by HR to start looking for a new job. Technically, right now he's still employed, although he's not overseas working, and we're just waiting for the official letter to come in. I'm really hoping for some sort of severance pay or whatever that's called.
He said he's going to apply for unemployment benefits, but I know that would just kill him. He has a lot of pride, and he wants to work for his money. He hated it when I was on WIC during my first pregnancy. That's why he's already looking for a new job. He has never not worked.
*sigh* This is all so confusing. But I have faith. Everything is going to be okay. We've had rough patches before, and we've always made it, something always came up, somehow everything always worked out. We'll be fine again this time. Luckily, I already have two presents for my son's birthday. That may be all he's getting this year, but it's way better than nothing. He knows about the situation right now, so hopefully he'll understand.