Blog Post
Hello Karen,
Thankyou for your reply to my post. I feel your anger mate! Don't beat yourself up for not being physically and mentally capable of going into battle. Hopefully BCNA will call for members who have suffered workplace discrimination on the basis of having cancer to register with the research project that they have flagged in the Beacon. It might give people who have had no justice at least the chance to have a voice. My situation was I was on a shot term teaching contract and received my diagnosis a few days after starting. 2 hours after leaving the doctor the boss accused me of having known I had cancer before I started so I could get the sick leave !!! Crazy eh! Nevertheless it still shocked me and really knocked me around to have my credibility, honesty and reputation so insulted and smeared. I eventually took it to the Human Rights Commission. Because it was a contract the Cancer Council legal unit wouldn't back me because they saw no work law problem. Just that process was draining, trying to find someone to recognise the wrong. Thank heavens we do have institutions there for some redress. It took a long time but it was worth it. Again, I was only able to fight because I didn't have any treatment so recovered from surgery and was ok. I hope your ok, and have another job. Number 1 is to look after yourself and don't let the b......s get you down.
All the best
Mandy