This is truly wrong:
Woman Fired From Job For Taking Time Off To Spend With Husband On Leave From Iraq
A Jessamine County woman is looking for work after being forced to make a tough decision - take two days to spend time with her husband on leave from Iraq, or lose her job.
Shirley Blankenship thought 10 years of service at McClane Cumberland, a distribution company, was enough to get her a couple of days off to be with her husband David before he returned to Iraq.
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Shirley said she wanted to take a week off at work while her husband was home. She felt since she had worked there since around the day the company opened ten years ago she could get the time off. But she was told she had used all her allotted vacation and sick time and had to work while David was in town. Blankenship also said she was on a warning for excessive absences - time she says was used over the last few years to care for her epileptic son, Austin.
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Blankenship was was fired Tuesday. She said that while she's upset, she knows in her heart she made the right decision.
This was first posted on DU here.
Here is a link to the company's site: http://www.mclaneco.com/locations/grocery/cumberland/cumberland.asp
Here is the general email link: contact@mclaneco.com
Here is the company's president's email: mary.piekarski@mclaneco.com
Groceries: http://www.mclaneco.com/services/grocery.asp
Food service: http://www.mclaneco.com/services/foodservice.asp