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    Default Can You be Fired Due to Cancer

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Florida

    In 2006 I started to work for a spinal orthopedic surgeon. After a year of working for him, the owner of the building and the doctors decided to do construction and to continue to work in the building even though they were provided the option to temporarily relocate. During that time I was pregnant with my son. We went through many medical problems due to the construction, most of which being infections. As a result, I believe, my baby was born early and very much sick.

    After the construction was done, five out of eight started getting diagnosed with various cancers, and in 2013 I was the last one to be diagnosed, with colon cancer. After I went through an extensive total colectomy in which the doctor found an eighth cm stage 2 malignant tumor and over 100 polyps throughout, I needed chemo , my employer fired me because I was sick with cancer and he said he had a business to run even though he provided a fellow coworker plenty of time to recover after getting breast cancer twice, and forcing me to take on her work as well as mine. He said that I was disposable and had to take care of my, and I quote, "f----- up" son.

    To be a mother and have someone treat you and your son with such cruelty and bias is uncalled for. He didn't give me a chance to recover in any way, not giving me any notice or sick leave of any kind. This happened when I was in dire need of work because my problems continued to escalate as masses were found repeatedly throughout my body. What can I do

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