So I've been away for a little while and things are a little bad. My great grandma (GGma) got a stroke and my mother decided to go back to spend some time with. The week before mom left, she got fired from her work. It would have been all right if she could still claim unemployed insurance, but her work place blamed her for the incident and won't let her claim it. My mom works at a child care centre and of course it was a big issue. However I still feel the employer blamed it on my mom because my mom's health is declining. Basically what happened at work: it was the change of shift and for some reason there was a pair of scissors laying around, one of the kids took it and cut his shirt's sleeves. My mom saw it and stopped the kid, but it was considered as my mom's fault for negating the kids.
This whole incident is just blowing my mind apart. Why is my mother getting blamed and not the child minder who's shift was before my moms?
What's more, when my mother tried to plead with the employer, the employer had a lot of excuses. Example: my mom is always looking down and she's always on the phone. Well HELLO? The kids are playing on the grounds, did you expect my mom to look up? My mom is a single mom and she's working from 8AM till 5AM. Other than me, there's still my two younger siblings (age 15 and 13). Did you expect her to NOT call home and check on HER OWN KIDS?
I am very disappointed and upset at this centre for the excuses they are using to get rid of my mother. I really feel they're getting rid of my mom for reasons that they can't say because it discriminates. For example:
1. My mom's health. Its been going downward since 2009 and she's been claiming medical benefits. I'm not sure how this is effecting the employers but I do know my mom had been pushing herself hardar for her work.
2. Her English is deteriorating. Yes, deteriorating. Instead of improving, she's becoming more and more childlike in her speech, her pronunciation is horrible, and sometime in her manners too. She can't even pronounce "vegetables" correctly, she called them "veggie-table"
3. Mom is taking leave for 3 weeks to visit GGma. I honestly feel this is the ignition point. Mom wants to go away for 3 weeks and might extend that 3 weeks if GGma is dying. That's really not something employers would want to hear since it really messes up with the shift planning.
4. The employer's daughter is currently working part-time at the centre because all the full time position is full. I don't even want to elaborate on this point.
In the end, I wholeheartedly believe the centre just wanted to get rid of my mom and... I'm lost.
