More good news
I was waffling on mentioning this but I’ve decided I would.
I got a nice wakeup call this morning from the labor board!
My case worker said again that the company that fired me for having endometriosis is in full violation of the law and has been proven through documentation I had sent months ago (chat logs, emails, employee manual, etc)
Apparently the company has been dicking the labor board by not getting back to them - they’ve been ignoring and avoiding every request sent by the labor board to date.
So the labor board finally had enough of it and told them in essence, “NOW you owe for the time you’ve dicked us around.”
So the company finally responded and said, “Okay, okay, we’ll settle this - tell Steph that for everything that happened to her, we’ll be happy to pay her a $10,000 settlement.”
The labor board called me up and told me all of this, and said I can accept or decline the settlement and go back to negotiations if I do decline.
Of course I declined!
I talked some more with my case worker. Here’s the plan: I have ACCRUAL on top of my original monetary demands! That means they are pursuing the original demand of one year’s salary (which includes lost wages and emotional pain and suffering) plus my old wage per hour for each 40 hours of the week I should have been working while the company took its time getting back to the labor board.
So then I told the board that I went back to work in May, 2008. The labor board said, “oh yeah? are you getting paid less? …oh you are? Now the company also owes you the difference in pay!”
This means that I get roughly one year’s salary, plus 7 months for the time I’ve been off work, plus one month of salary and counting at the difference in pay now that I’m back to work part time/as needed through this one agency, while I try to score additional work. This puts me at a year and a half salary (and counting), that I am now owed by that stupid company that fired me for having an illness.
The labor board will now tell the company I have refused their original settlement of $10,000 and propose to them the new accrued amount, and sit back and wait. I was warned that this can go on for quite some time until an agreement is reached. Each time the labor board talks to the company, they remind the company that they were in clear violation of the law in firing me.
And now I sit back and wait for the next round of discussion.