Reply #37: See a lawyer. [View All]

[tonysam]

Lots of employers are trying to get around FMLA in order to save money. I was shitcanned by my school district--illegally--supposedly because of a mistake I and a physician's assistant made on an FMLA form. It didn't justify dismissal, but my principal was pressured by the human resources assistant superintendent--a crook, as far as I am concerned--to throw me out, just after I got vested in retirement. Never mind she had not done one damned thing she was supposed to do by state statute (I was a tenured teacher).

Being not knowledgeable about how "objective" "due process" hearings are in school districts, I went through the process. What a joke they are. All kinds of criminal acts by school districts are tolerated, including perjury, subornation of perjury, forgery of documents, bribery of potential witnesses, and so forth, yet the arbitrator ALWAYS rules in favor of the employer. ALWAYS. In addition, the union's attorneys I believe were in cahoots with the district, and therefore I had no due process rights whatsoever.

I have been weighing the idea of getting an attorney to take my case--I think it is a good one, especially given the fact my previous principal was harassing me all year long before and following my refusal to violate federal law for him and I asked to get out of that school; unfortunately, I was switched with another teacher and was not allowed to pick my own school, thus I feel I was being set up for failure.