Woman Fired From Job For Taking Time Off To Spend With Husband On Leave [View All]

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From Iraq (rest of title)

This came across our local news this evening and I found the article on the stations website.

Here's Another Support our Troops company!!!!!


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.

"Ever since I worked for them they said we're for family," said Blankenship. "But they wasn't for my family."

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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.

Link to rest of article
http://www.wlextv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3508540

Here's a link to the company's website. It's a food service distribution company. They don't list any of their customers. If I knew which restaurants/grocery/convenience stores they service, I would start a boycott!

http://www.mclaneco.com/locations/grocery/cumberland/cumberland.asp