I have a severe medical condition that is completely dormant most of the time, but flares up about once every six weeks when it's active. During flare-ups, I am completely debilitated, and on high doses of morphine and Percocet for pain. About once a year, the condition is severe enough to require hospitalization for about a week.
I have trouble holding jobs because of this.
I have an excellent resume and recommendations, and have achieved above average performance reviews throughout my career.
At several positions, though, the condition flares up, and I am either debilitated at home, or sometimes in the hospital, with the frequency described above. As soon as it becomes a pattern, I am laid off for any number of generic reasons - budgeting, restructuring, etc. It is so transparent each time it happens that I can predict it with extreme accuracy.
I am not eigible for medical disbility because my condition is so sporadic, but I also continually go through savings and wind up back at the same starting point every few years since I'm not ideally employable. I tend to be at a position for less than two years before termination, so I am on a two year cycle of ups and downs. It is only because I have learned to plan for this certainty financially that I can keep my head above water. I am very concerned, though, about my future, given rising medical costs and my inability to save for later years.
Since termination is always attributed to something bogus, do I have any recourse? I'm currently unemployed again and wondering if there is something I could/should do up front to protect myself from this happening again.
I have trouble holding jobs because of this.
I have an excellent resume and recommendations, and have achieved above average performance reviews throughout my career.
At several positions, though, the condition flares up, and I am either debilitated at home, or sometimes in the hospital, with the frequency described above. As soon as it becomes a pattern, I am laid off for any number of generic reasons - budgeting, restructuring, etc. It is so transparent each time it happens that I can predict it with extreme accuracy.
I am not eigible for medical disbility because my condition is so sporadic, but I also continually go through savings and wind up back at the same starting point every few years since I'm not ideally employable. I tend to be at a position for less than two years before termination, so I am on a two year cycle of ups and downs. It is only because I have learned to plan for this certainty financially that I can keep my head above water. I am very concerned, though, about my future, given rising medical costs and my inability to save for later years.
Since termination is always attributed to something bogus, do I have any recourse? I'm currently unemployed again and wondering if there is something I could/should do up front to protect myself from this happening again.