Some employers are just scumbags
Most employers are normal people like you and me. But every now and then you come across one that makes you question how they look themselves in the mirror every day.
Long story short is a downstate painting company hired a college kid for cash and provided him no job training. He ends up on a scaffold and gets electrocuted and dies because he gets absolutely no training.
The owners of the company tell the family that they are really sorry, but since they were paying cash he's not an employee. Apparently someone told them that if he's not an employee they could be sued for negligence so they then call the family back and say, by George he was an employee. But of course they knew that he died without a wife or kids so all that could be gained is the medical bills and funeral costs.
I referred them to an Illinois wrongful death lawyer and I hope they take this company to the cleaners. The first thing this company did was figure out how to cover their own ass. They were ripping off the Government by paying the kid cash, they failed to train the kid and as a result he died. And when the company realizes that their initial lies might cost them, they make up another bunch of lies.
We'll see how this one turns out, but I don't that I'll ever have a case where I'm rooting this much for a verdict against the wrong doer. If karma exists, they'll get nailed.
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