what to do

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by fixer9510, Feb 15, 2010.

  1. fixer9510

    fixer9510 Bobtail Member

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    I had to go to the doc last week to get my dot phicsal renew thy found a lump and the side of my neck well it trun out to cancer so i let millis know this and i needed ro be on med. leave for a little bit so thy could run some test and treat my cancer thy say no trouble take what you need just let us know what is going on. I got a letter today from millis that said i was fired for not reporting in for work after my home time was up. i had call them ever other day to keep them infromed on what was going on and what thy had found it is treatable and i needed to be off for a while for keymo and readation thy said no trouble we will get your short tream disabley going so thy did and then fired me and along with the fired letter thy send me a bill for the rest of what i owen them on the schooling is this leagal?
     
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  3. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Have you asked them for an explanation ? Maybe some office idiot got their wires crossed . Call and talk to the people that started your short term disability . You should have sent a written request for leave of absence though and gotten it approved .
     
  4. Rollover the Original

    Rollover the Original Road Train Member

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    It's called Family Medical Leave Assistance and is a federal thing. You need to call them and tell them that you're claiming FMLA and they can't fire you. You get I believe 3 months of this and it's a FEDERAL mandate!

    Good luck as I went through this back in the summer of 2008 and had no problem with the company.

    If you need some support, you don't have the posts yet to IM or email me but go to My Space and reach me there at : http://www.myspace.com/RolloverRiderPGR and leave a note as to who you are, Or get with a mod and have them give you my real email address. I also have a 2 some odd chapter Journal in there if any of you want to read about my fun summer of 08!

    I had Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma into stage 4 which was from the sinuses all the way to my lungs, a nasty kind of cancer which I thought I had gotten over but now there is a "thing" in the brain which has me off the road maybe till the end of days which I go in on Thursday to see what the next step is.

    Any way if there are things that you can't find out from you doctors or team about or the answers don't seem to fit let me know! Been there and have the T Shirts for that circus ride!

    BUT you need to file for unemployment or disability, Medicaid and food stamps ASAP! If you're a VET hit the VA! This is a bad pot hole you've hit and trust me things can go down hill really fast from this point on! We're getting calls from all the creditiors and it actually takes money to tell them you don't have any so I can't even afford a lawyer to hire for a bankruptcy! Go figure!

    Good Luck
    Rollover
     
  5. fixer9510

    fixer9510 Bobtail Member

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    i just found out that millis change the way thy do things from what i was that i was told in the beginning, I was to have the school paid off in 1 year but now because people were using that 1 year to get experience than leaving so to stop that thy added a year on to the pay off it takes 51 weeks to pay it all back and if you do stay 52 weeks thy pay you back 6 mo of the last year i talk to knight and thy told me that thy would pay back the school up to 5,000$ if i stay for 1 year. and so far as millis goes I'M not sure i want to work for someone who fires you if you get sick i found out i have cancer and thy fired me over it but the way thy put it in the letter was i got fired because i could not work after i got back from a vacation that i did not want to take because there truck broke down thy said take your weeks vacation so we can pay you while we fix your truck that's when i found out i had the cancer when i went to the doc to renew my dot physical
     
  6. jtrnr1951

    jtrnr1951 Road Train Member

    Best of Luck Driver, hope you get everything taken care of.
     
  7. fixer9510

    fixer9510 Bobtail Member

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    I just got off the phone with millis thy aid the person i need to talk to is out for the day well i have been trying to get a hold of this person ever since i got the letter and he seems to be out a lot here lately i even went to the owner he was also out not getting any answer from them at all thy also have my unemployment on hold because i was fired and the short term disability thy i sign up for in the beginning is only 251.00 a week and thy take out taxes on it for both Indiana and Wisconsin and the school payment on top of all that and my doc said that i could go back to work today with limitations, i think i need to talk to a lawyer what do you all think?
     
  8. jtrnr1951

    jtrnr1951 Road Train Member

    Free consultations most times...Go for it !!!!!
     
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