There’s a loop hole in the workers compensation laws. It’s possible to fire injured workers, before the doctor releases the employee to work. My employer; Tech Ridge Office Park, waited until the doctor released me to work on March 4, 2013, then told me that the company changed receivership back in Nov. 2012. I was told, my employment was not with Tech Ridge, but with the receiver; Kennedy Wilson. So technically I was never an employed by Tech Ridge.
Tech Ridge manager, Joy McCracken says, she did not give me notice before the doctor release, because I am not around and she seldom sees me. This is untrue. She received the doctors report from me in person, the first week of each month, and handled them for the employer.This document was required by my employer, and no one else has any right to handle it. Yet, McCracken continued to handle these reports in Dec, Jan, Feb, and March of 2013. Also, she had opportunity to share this information with me over the phone. I informed her by phone in Dec 2012 that I needed her to verify my employment, for an apartment in Tulsa, so that I could avoid the 100 mile to work and back from my home in Muskogee. She faxed a verification of my employment on Dec. 20, 2012, to the apartment complex, where I signed a one year lease. In this document, she provided false information. She indicates in this employment verification that on Dec. 20, 2012 I was employed full time as lead engineer at Tech Ridge, (A month after she now says that my employment ended) McCracken could have saved me from skipping out on my lease agreement, had she not done this.
Because I am physically unable to do the job, my attorney is trying to get more workers comp. McCracken now says she cannot provide a work reference, because of this claim against the company. How a claim against Kennedy Wilson, (the previous receivership) involves Tech Ridge, now that there is a new receiver (NAI Petrous), gives pause for question. The fact that McCracken was made privy to the claim against the Kennedy Wilson, suggests Tech Ridge/NAI Petrous is the employer, and have some responsibility in the workers comp. claim.
It’s quite obvious that what Tech Ridge did is unethical, but it should be illegal.
Yeah,....well, welcome to the real world of so many others... I have posted a similar story for a couple guys I know....
And apparently, even your own personal experience hasn't let you make the 'cause and effect' relationship between what you vote and the end result - your own present situation. And workers comp is a big topic in the state right now! They are doing everything they can to get the rates you pay even higher, and the benefits you get for that ridiculous insurance premium even lower than they are now. Yeah....Failin' is the good choice....
Well, some people just gotta learn the hard way.
As for me - well, I have been looking for a small office space and was looking at them very closely. Now, not so much. And yeah, I know they won't give a rat's backside about that.
What kind of air conditioning equipment did they put on the roof? That may just clinch it for me....I'm kinda particular about A/C equipment.
