Wednesday, January 24, 2018
US nurse takes legal action after claiming she was sacked for supporting Donald Trump
A NURSE in the United States has launched legal action after claiming she was sacked for being a Trump supporter.
Earlier this month Lizzy Mathews, of Colorado, filed a civil suit in the US District Court against Denver Health Medical Centre nursing manager Kelly Torres and director of acute nursing Marc Fedo.
The 65-year-old alleges she was fired after a patient asked her who she thought would win the election during the throes of the 2016 presidential campaign.
According to Fox News, during the short conversation Ms Mathews said she wanted Donald Trump to win, adding she was “praying for him”. The patient then replied, “Oh no, I don’t want him.”
Ms Mathews claims her manager informed her a formal complaint had been made about the conversation several days later.
Ms Torres then fired Ms Mathews on the basis she did not work enough hours, and Mr Fedo approved the decision and ruled the nurse ineligible for rehiring.
Ms Mathews made a complaint to the Equal Employment Occupation Commission and also claimed to have been discriminated against based on her Asian-Indian background.
She is demanding her job back along with back pay and damages for emotional distress caused by losing her job, which she had held for 27 years.
“The Defendants’ act of terminating Ms Mathews from her employment without eligibility for rehire was motivated by Ms Mathews’ exercise of constitutionally protected conduct of association with her political views,” the claim said.
“[These] actions caused Ms Mathews to suffer injuries that would chill a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in such constitutionally protected activity.
“[Mathews’ supervisors] treated non-Asian/Indian employees more favourably, including but not limited to disparate discipline and with less scrutiny then that applied to Ms Mathews that led to termination of her employment without eligibility for rehire based on race and national origin.”
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2 comments:
Typical liberals can everybody that dont agree with your liberal leftists ideas i sure hope she wins her case and make them eat crow
There is more to this firing than just the incident with the patient over political issues.
The nurse is also claiming she was discriminated against because she is "Asian-Indian."
If the hospital had rules against political and religious conversations with patients (to avoid other lawsuits) and the woman broke those rules on multiple instances, I don't have an issue with the firing.
Private businesses can set the parameters of speech on their time and that may have been what happened here.
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