Workers’ comp is absolutely, NECESSARY, after all, you’re, asking, no, DEMANDING these workers to work long hours, and now, their health is, flashing RED! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
For Three Consecutive Months, the Workers were Asked to Work Over Hundred Hours of Overtime, the Judge Believed that the Conditions were Caused by Work, Mandated that the Company Pay the Workers $1.27 Million N.T.s
A man who works as a security guard, Wu, for three months, on average, worked over a hundred hours overtime, after he had an “anoxic stroke”, he’d still worked the shifts, several months later, as his health deteriorated, he’d asked for a leave of absence with the security company he worked with, but the company believed that Wu was slacking off, and, decided to fire him; Wu was angered, and pursued the company in civil court; the Shihlin District Court, based off of the medical records from the N.T.U. Hospital, found that Wu’s condition was caused by his workload, and, found that the company he worked for needed to pay him over $1.27 million N.T.s.
Wu claimed, that he’d started working as a nighttime security guard started on October 2nd of 2017, the hours of work were from eight in the evening to six in the morn, the following year on January 19th, he’d suddenly felt lack of strength in his left hand, and he was diagnosed with “a stroke caused by anoxia, an embolism in an artery on his right hemisphere”, but he’d still continued working at his post.
In May of 2018, he’d fallen ill, and asked for a leave of absence of two days from the company, the company gave him the days off, told him to wait for them to contact him for scheduling of his shifts again, but he’d, never heard from them again, and they’d, FIRED him, and stopped his labor insurances payments, and, sent him a letter stating that he was, fired from his post.
The security company testified, that Wu didn’t work hard at his post, he’d fallen asleep often on the job, and the residents filed complaints on him multiple times, that he’d been diagnosed with diabetes eleven years ago, which was what caused his aneurism, that it has NOTHING to do with how much hours he’d been, working. The courts investigated, that one to three months before Wu suffered a stroke, he was scheduled for 276, 276, and 288 hours, hat he’d worked overtime for over a hundred hours a month on average; the medical reports Wu got from N.T.U.’s evaluation of what caused his condition stated, that four months after Wu started working as a security guard, he’d had the embolism of the left hemisphere arteries in his brains, that the two events were, chronologically, related.
And, based off of the guide of diagnoses of these conditions posted by the Labor Department, he’d worked an average of eighty hours overtime a month two to six months previous to his stroke, that there’s, a huge connection of a cause and effect; the medical report stated, that the workload that Wu was carrying, is directly related to what caused his condition.
The judge found, that three months before Wu suffered a stroke, he’d worked over the 48-hour overtime limit, believed, that his anoxic stroke was caused by his profession, that the security company did NOT set up Wu’s time of work properly, and didn’t have the health exams provisions available, that the company need to pay for his medical treatments, the days of work he’d missed, along with the money needed for his daily leaving, a total of over $1.27 million N.T.’s.
And this, is a case, of how the worker going up against the big company WON out, but, at the cost of his own health conditions, this man worked too hard, the company did NOT consider his health conditions, and still, not lightened his schedules, which caused this man’s stroke, and so, the judge found that the security guard agency on the losing end, and now, the company will pay, for making its worker work way too hard.