Think Pinker

Everyone knows that any type of discrimination in the work place is both wrong and unethical, but now there seems to be another type of discrimination that may be going through the workplace. According to one Connecticut women, being at risk for breast cancer is now grounds for termination.

Pamela Fink says that she was let go from her job after she tested as a high risk candidate to one day receive a breast cancer diagnosis and then took action to help prevent the scenario from playing out. After Fink underwent a double mastectomy because her doctor told her she was at an 80 percent chance of getting breast cancer she recovered, went back to work, and later had reconstructive surgery. It was then that she received a review from her employer that she says was both “negative and scathing.” On March 25^th she was terminated from MXenergy and while she is taking issue with the way it all went down her former employer is denying the allegations.

ThinkPinker.com will stay on top of this story and bring you any updates as they are available. Hopefully this incident is an isolated incent. The last thing that women who have to deal with the emotional and physical trauma of breast cancer treatments need is to have the fear of losing their jobs. Instead we should all be lending support, prayers, and love.

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