Do you think its fair to be laid off for being gay?

my brother works at Sears, his co-worker is gay and called in sick because he couldnt get the day off to go to a gay pride thing in San Francisco. someone snitched on him and the manager found out he wasn't sick and that he went to the gay pride parade. then she got pissed off and fired him because he lied to her and went to the gay pride rally instead of going to work. she bitches all day long and she had always hated him because he is too social and always wants days off whenever a gay pride rallies come along(not too often) but he always shows up and she just pushes him around all day. he is a good employee but she has said homophobic things before in front of him according to my brother and she fired him. no real reason, so she looks bad for firing him for being gay. its nor right. shes a ***** if you ask me. and my brother took it up with her and disgusted the issue and them he got placed on part time and she said "your on thin ice and im sick of your bull crap, and your gonna be next if you dont watch yourself. Your just looking for reason to get fired arent you and i would be honored to be the person who send you out on the streets". she pciks on my brother too but he sint gay but the manager so unreasonable and complain about everything,yet he si one of the only guys at work who doesn't ***** and gossip all day. he has trouble with costumors and give them attitude sometimes becaue they coem up to him speaking Spanish and then start talkign in English, they assume he speaks Spanish just because he si mexican and then the dam customers always "you should learn to speak Spanish" and they always have trouble communicating with dum customers who have no clue what they are looking for.Do you think its fair to be laid off for being gay?
hmm i would still fire him for lying not for being gay. If he told me he had to go to the gay pride parade i wouldn't care i'd let him take the day offDo you think its fair to be laid off for being gay?
I think she's just a pmsing *****.



As for your question, no, discrimination isn't a good reason to be fired.. There's a law against it, but I bet a judge would rule otherwise for gays. :\
It is ILLEGAL to get laid off for being gay.



However, you CAN get laid off for not speaking spanish. you often have to be able to nowadays because of the large amount of spanish speaking people





don't call them stupid. you're the same way when you go to another country. you seem just as "dum"Do you think its fair to be laid off for being gay?
should have called it a personal day
In some states you can be fired for no reason at all.



He was not fired because he was gay. YOU already stated that he FALSELY called in sick when he was not sick. Employers schedule the number of people they need and EXPECT those people to show up. When people are TRULY sick then it is understandable that they will call in, BUT as you have already stated he was NOT sick. He was fired for lying and for NOT showing up when scheduled to work.Do you think its fair to be laid off for being gay?
He didn't get laid off for being gay, he got fired for lying about being sick.



He is not a victim here.
That's actually illegal, technically, in some states only, actually, but I like to say it is through my ethical standards! :D
According to your own reciting of the story, she fires him not for being gay, but for missing work and lying about being sick.



Also, you said that he gets upset with customers - in a business that depends on customer satisfaction, that's not a good idea.



I think I'd hate fired him too. (Laid off implies there may be a job to return to if things pick up - firing is a permanent separation.)
A person should not get fired because of sexual orientation. She might be a ***** but she did have grounds for firing him. In a lot of companies there is a strict policy against malingering.
if he took the day off when he was told that he couldn't have the day off its grounds for firing him. its as simple as that, He wasn't fired for being gay, he was fired for taking an unauthorized day off. its in the rules, they can do that.its called dereliction of duty and its in the labour laws.