Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremendous amount of ignorance out there." The dilemma, says Kenneth Labowitz, a Washington lawyer who represents many stricken employees, is that "a person who has AIDS has the worst medical stigma of the decade. One anchor in the crisis is family, and the other is his job. The victim needs support from both...
Increasingly, it may not be that easy. Swinney, Cronan and Shuttleworth are all suing their employers for damages as high as $15 million. Earlier this month, the U.S. Government for the first time filed a complaint on behalf of an AIDS victim. The Health and Human Services Department accused the Charlotte (N.C.) Memorial Hospital of violating the civil rights of an AIDS-afflicted registered nurse by firing the man and refusing to offer him any other work. By the time the Government acted, however, the AIDS victim had been dead five months. Indeed, no AIDS victim has yet lived long...
...uncertainty, a number of corporations, including Pacific Bell and Cigna insurance company, are now allowing AIDS sufferers to stay on the job as long as their failing health permits. Three years ago, when two BankAmerica employees in San Francisco flatly refused to work with an AIDS victim, the company let the objectors resign and kept the disease victim in | his post. Says Nancy L. Merritt, a BankAmerica vice president: "We recognize the therapeutic value of employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim...
...more difficult problem for many firms is the cost of treating an AIDS victim, which averages about $147,000 during the two years it generally takes for the disease to run its fatal course. For small businesses, one or two AIDS cases could trigger a ruinous hike in health-insurance premiums. To keep costs in the $35,000 range, corporations like RCA have established outpatient-care programs in which AIDS patients spend far less time in the hospital and more on the job or at home...
...annually if he filled five shifts a week; a shop steward at the Times says Mauri could easily do so. "If anything," says Charles Perkins, assistant commissioner for public affairs for New York City's housing department, "Mauri is a beneficiary of the system rather than a victim of the system...