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To: goldworldnet who wrote (3592)	4/14/2006 11:26:43 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

If ever an article deserved a "LOL!" it is this one: Palestinian prime minister: U.S. leads 'unholy alliance' Hamas-led government vows it will survive cuts in Western aid cnn.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (3592)	4/14/2006 12:08:15 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Terminally ill woman suing resort over firing Palm Beach Post ^ \| Friday, April 14, 2006 \| By Daphne Duret palmbeachpost.com STUART — About a month after an emergency room visit found Nina Kennedy had Stage 4 colon and liver cancer, her supervisors from Hilton Grand Vacations called her with more bad news. "They told her she was fired," West Palm Beach attorney Charles Thomas said Thursday. Kennedy had been the manager of the Plantation Beach Club on Hutchinson Island for 2 1/2 years when she was terminated in December after working 13 years with the company. Regional directors told her she had been fired because she violated company policy, she said. But in a lawsuit filed in Martin Circuit Court Thursday, Kennedy and Thomas said the company hid its reasons behind a much stronger motive. "They knew that she had a potentially terminal illness, she would have been out for a while and they didn't want to deal with it," Thomas said. Thomas said the way the company fired Kennedy is a violation of the Federal Family Medical Leave Act, a law that protects job security for people who have to take time off work because of serious medical conditions for themselves or immediate family members. It is the law that allows women to take time off from work after they give birth and lets people care for severely ill family members. It also gives people who are suffering from severe illness up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave without fear of losing their jobs. Kennedy said she asked Hilton officials to send her the appropriate forms for short-term disability for an entire month before she was terminated. She said they did not provide her with the forms until after she was fired and it was too late to collect. Hilton spokeswoman Lisa Cole said she had not seen the lawsuit Thursday and that, as a practice, the company cannot comment on open cases. Kennedy answered the phone at her Jensen Beach home Thursday evening, but said she had just returned from a chemotherapy. "I'm sorry, I'm really not up to talking right now," she said. Thomas said it was too early to say how much money he would seek in damages against Hilton. He said Kennedy should be entitled to all the money she would have made had she been able to eventually return to work, plus any of the medical benefits she was deprived of as a result of her firing. "It's not like she's going to become a millionaire from this," he said. "But at least this issue will come to light, and she'll be compensated for what she's entitled to."