Employee files lawsuit alleging she was fired from Woodman's Markets in Lakemoor for taking time off for cancer surgery

Employee files lawsuit alleging she was fired from Woodman's Markets in Lakemoor for taking time off for cancer surgery

An employee of Woodman’s Markets in Lakemoor claims she was fired for taking time off work to undergo cancer surgery and has filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin-based company. | Photo: Google Street View A now-former employee has filed a federal lawsuit and says she was fired from Woodman’s Markets in Lakemoor for taking time off from work for her cancer surgery. Sulaiman Law Group, based in Lombard, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Suzanne Jordan…

Op-Ed: I was diagnosed with cancer, fired from my job — NYS’s paid leave program left me adrift

The call came in while I was at work. Ahead of the phone ringing, I can remember trying to distract myself. I knew to expect it that week and so I spent the preceding days readying myself for any possibility. When it finally came, “ready” I was not. I picked up, made a polite greeting and the voice on the other end of the line said to me, very calmly, “you have breast cancer.” It was the greatest shock of my life — or so I thought. I decided ear…