The city didn’t “step up to the plate”, it “bent over”. If this guy can’t see he can’t be a firefighter. This is not “discrimination”, it reality and fact. Now they give him a plum job at $200K a year? What fire department has a job that pays that? The poor souls who risk their lives don’t make anywhere near that. This is a disgrace. What has this deadbeat been doing for the past 7 years? He declined a lower paying job. If he hasn’t found alternative employment they should tell him to stuff it.
Jester, the problem is that had the City fought this and a sympathetic jury awarded anything, the legal fees the City would owe the plaintiff alone would have probably been close to $800,000. Employment laws are fraught with peril for employers, and are peppered with incentives to file meritless claims and/or hold out for undeserved settlements.
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The city didn’t “step up to the plate”, it “bent over”. If this guy can’t see he can’t be a firefighter. This is not “discrimination”, it reality and fact. Now they give him a plum job at $200K a year? What fire department has a job that pays that? The poor souls who risk their lives don’t make anywhere near that. This is a disgrace. What has this deadbeat been doing for the past 7 years? He declined a lower paying job. If he hasn’t found alternative employment they should tell him to stuff it.
Jester, the problem is that had the City fought this and a sympathetic jury awarded anything, the legal fees the City would owe the plaintiff alone would have probably been close to $800,000. Employment laws are fraught with peril for employers, and are peppered with incentives to file meritless claims and/or hold out for undeserved settlements.