Some bad news.

I don't really know how many people are aware of our situation with Dannon. I am pretty sure everyone knows Raymond had surgery in March. Raymond took FMLA leave in order to have the surgery because Dannon refused to give him vacation time because he did not know two weeks in advance of the surgery in order to schedule it as vacation. When Raymond was released to return to work by his doctor Dannon refused to allow him to return to work, they called him the day he was supposed to go back and told him not to come in because they needed to deal with their legal department and they would call him when he could come back. Needless to say we hired an attorney (difficult thing to do when you are poor.). Our lawyer and Dannon's lawyer finally worked out an agreement and Raymond was finally allowed to return to work on July 14 with some demands that were agreed upon. Federal law says that a person cannot be penalized for taking a leave under the Family Medical Leave Act but that is exactly what Dannon had done and we knew eventually Dannon would have to allow him to return to work, when Raymond initially took the leave on March 12 Dannon gave him what they call an Occurrence which is basically a mark against him on his record, one of our demands was that this occurrence be removed and was agreed upon by Dannon's lawyer. Well anyway this Wednesday when Raymond went to work he was asked by his coach to come with him to speak with the HR director. The purpose of the meeting was to Terminate Raymond's employment with Dannon, they used the unlawful occurrence wich was added to Ray's record on March 12 as grounds for his termination which is obviously in violation of their own legal agreement, our lawyer has already drafted a letter to Dannon's lawyer to make them aware that they are in viloation of a legal agreement and demanding Raymond's immediate reinstatement. Our lawyer has given Dannon's lawyer until until the Aug 26 to reply. Obviously we are upset and frustrated and are somewhat at a loss about what we should do at this point. Luckily I did just get hired by fairchild however my income will be less than half of what Raymond was making. We understand that people are concerned and worried about us, we appreciate it and ask that everyone give us some time to deal with this situation and decide what we are going to do. We have a lot of decisions that we need to make in a short amount of time and I am taking this especially hard. Please keep us in your prayers and hopefully things will work out ok.