A boss often can fire you while you're hospitalized
Five days — that's how many sick days Tom McLaughlin took to lose his job at a carton manufacturer.
McLaughlin was in the hospital for three of those days, being treated for a potentially life-threatening flare-up of an infection in two sores on his right leg.
His doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., pleaded last week with Bell Inc. to keep McLaughlin, saying his medical care was ne