Suit challenges sick day firing

A former security guard with New York's Tishman Speyer real-estate firm claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for missing work due to chest pains.

Gerald Murtha claims in his $3 million lawsuit that his former employer of 15 years phoned him after he returned from a doctor's visit in April 2007 to inform that he was being fired for taking an 11th sick day (when) the union contract only permits 10, the New York Post reported Friday.

However, Murtha claims he had 15 unused vacation days and two remaining personal days that could have been docked to cover the extra day.

Joshua Nessen, Murtha's lawyer, said Tishman Speyer was looking for an excuse to fire his client for being a union activist.

A spokeswoman for the real-estate firm said the lawsuit is without merit.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

Publication date: 01 March 2008

Source: UPI-1-20080229-19391000-bc-us-chestpains.xml

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