Former employee’s wife pleads to company to approve unemployment benefits so she can pay for her cancer treatments.
Portland, OR – Cancer victim Holly Hicks is generating attention at Change.org, the world’s largest petition platform, with her petition to fight back against unfairness in the workplace.
Why a Petition?
Paul and Holly Hicks were offered no compassion or options when the company that Paul worked for, ESCO Corporation, terminated him from his job as plant scheduler. He had worked for the company for thirty nine years. To date, ESCO has refused to respond to the couple.
Denying his unemployment benefits and taking away their health insurance, the company left them without means for Holly to continue her cancer treatments. Without unemployment benefits they don’t have incoming funds to pay the $1200 a month Cobra premium. Because her cancer is a pre-existing condition Holly has been denied private insurance and Obamacare doesn’t start until January 2014. Like so many other cancer patients, she not only has to fight her illness, but she also has to fight the system.
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