Our beloved, irreplaceable daughter Annie should’ve been celebrating her 30th birthday this week. Instead, we’re left marking that milestone without her -- remembering all that she was and grieving… | Greg Surman | 264 comments
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Our beloved, irreplaceable daughter Annie should’ve been celebrating her 30th birthday this week. Instead, we’re left marking that milestone without her -- remembering all that she was and grieving all that should have been. Annie died by suicide last year, after being fired by MongoDB while she was on disability leave. Yesterday, we filed a legal complaint against MongoDB, seeking accountability for Annie’s wrongful termination and wrongful death. The complaint alleges as follows: Annie was on leave receiving intensive mental health treatment when MongoDB demanded her immediate return to work. She asked for an extension to complete her treatment, or at the least a short period to consult with her medical providers about whether and how she might be able to return to work before the treatment was completed. Instead, MongoDB terminated her health insurance and then fired her in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. Shortly afterward, Annie took her own life. An extension of Annie’s leave would have cost MongoDB nothing. We made it clear that they did not need to pay her or hold her job open for her. We just asked them not to fire her while she was in such a vulnerable state, as we feared that would result in tragedy. We just wanted a little more time to get her stabilized. We understand MongoDB may have told some of Annie’s colleagues that she quit. That is not true. MongoDB fired her. We’re pursuing this case to set the record straight and to help ensure that powerful companies like MongoDB do not continue to violate the rights of their employees. | 264 comments on LinkedIn
      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 days ago

        “American Labor” once threw bombs at police and fought actual battles with the National Guard, it’s been a long war and the capitalists have used every means in the last 100 years to bring labor to where it is today. We live under the most sophisticated police surveillance state with a global military with what seems like endless resources. It’s not so much labor has no teeth but we are gripped at the throat by capital. We can fight back, we still have the means.

        • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          so, let’s just say that theoretically there came to be one of those unicorn morale billionaires. someone who came from nothing but eventually came to learn how this whole fucked system came about, then exploited it themselves to grab as much $ as they can (ie. just yoinked $ from the stock market during a crash…about as morale as making $ you didnt work for gets) but they didn’t let it corrupt them nor get distracted by the bread & circus.

          an actual proper robinhood type, that just has effectively infinite $ to throw into the Great Game, how would this person go about affecting as much pro-labor change in the ol’ USA?

          to me, the most impactful area appears to be media control. murdoch as his fingers in damn near everything, the propagandas grip undeniable once you finally become aware of it. various other far right/lib billionaires either outright own or otherwise heavily influence damn near every media company, to include NPR. the only mainstream outlet that even remotely acknowledges/covers the genocide in palestine (though still refuses to call it a genocide) is AP news.

    • Jhuskindle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Yes we have no mandatory paid breaks. If you get a holiday you are lucky. We have no medical protection. Few states have mandatory accrual of some days off or sick day. It’s horrible here.

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Mandatory paid breaks are definitely a thing here. CA is 10 minutes every 4 hours. FMLA and workers comp cover medical protection. I can’t remember the last time I even pretended to consider a job without holiday pay and vacation, though i agree they should be mandatory and not optional. Where exactly are you working with conditions like you describe?