Hello
I need some advice on something that is really bothering me. My boyfriend had a serious motorbike accident where he collided with an oncoming car and got so severely injured that even now, years later, he has serious troubles walking for longer than a few minutes, he is unable to run or jump, and when he walks he is limping. If that wasn't enough, he is a sufferer from chronic migraine (when he get his attacks he can only lie down in agony in bed all day, and he throws up as well). He also went through surgery twice in a year for the removal of two different tumors. One on his bad leg, one in his throat which caused him so much discomfort to the point where he had serious troubles breathing, and after it was removed he had phantom pains and kept getting panic attacks, thinking he couldn't breathe. The tumour on his leg resulted in a nasty case of MRSA, which ate away at his leg which caused him to be bound to the home for a total of 2 months (MRSA is extremely contagious and going to work with it would put everyone around him at risk of getting infected, or so the doctor said).
He has a full time job and has been working in the same office for about 5 years. During the first few years he would only ever call in sick if he had his horrible migraines, which he would get maybe 3 times/month and a maximum of one of those attacks he would actually call in sick, the other times he would just man up and go to work anyway. The last 2 years, his absence has been a lot higher, mainly because of the tumors, but also because his migraines are getting more intense.
He is seeing a doctor who is prescribing him with medication for his migraines, and is seeing him more or less monthly.
His workplace has changed, he's got a new manager, and she is not very understanding of this. She chucks him warning after warning, and the stress this is causing him, believing he will lose his job, is causing his migraines to get even worse.
Can a person really get fired for medical conditions that they have limited or no control of? If they were to fire him, what should he do? Is there anything he can do right now? I would really appreciate any kind of advice on this.
Sorry for the long read and thanks for taking your time with this
I need some advice on something that is really bothering me. My boyfriend had a serious motorbike accident where he collided with an oncoming car and got so severely injured that even now, years later, he has serious troubles walking for longer than a few minutes, he is unable to run or jump, and when he walks he is limping. If that wasn't enough, he is a sufferer from chronic migraine (when he get his attacks he can only lie down in agony in bed all day, and he throws up as well). He also went through surgery twice in a year for the removal of two different tumors. One on his bad leg, one in his throat which caused him so much discomfort to the point where he had serious troubles breathing, and after it was removed he had phantom pains and kept getting panic attacks, thinking he couldn't breathe. The tumour on his leg resulted in a nasty case of MRSA, which ate away at his leg which caused him to be bound to the home for a total of 2 months (MRSA is extremely contagious and going to work with it would put everyone around him at risk of getting infected, or so the doctor said).
He has a full time job and has been working in the same office for about 5 years. During the first few years he would only ever call in sick if he had his horrible migraines, which he would get maybe 3 times/month and a maximum of one of those attacks he would actually call in sick, the other times he would just man up and go to work anyway. The last 2 years, his absence has been a lot higher, mainly because of the tumors, but also because his migraines are getting more intense.
He is seeing a doctor who is prescribing him with medication for his migraines, and is seeing him more or less monthly.
His workplace has changed, he's got a new manager, and she is not very understanding of this. She chucks him warning after warning, and the stress this is causing him, believing he will lose his job, is causing his migraines to get even worse.
Can a person really get fired for medical conditions that they have limited or no control of? If they were to fire him, what should he do? Is there anything he can do right now? I would really appreciate any kind of advice on this.
Sorry for the long read and thanks for taking your time with this