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beevul

(12,194 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 02:15 PM Nov 2015

Former LOFS employee's lawsuit says he was fired for owning a gun

Former LOFS employee's lawsuit says he was fired for owning a gun

October 07, 2014 8:30 pm • Sarah Reese sarah.reese@nwi.com, (219) 933-3351

Nino Ferlaino, who worked as a seasonal landscaping employee at LOFS for 21 years, says in a lawsuit filed Monday in Lake Circuit Court that he was confronted by a supervisor two days after he told co-workers he is a gun owner.

The supervisor, Doug Weiss, on July 2 asked Ferlaino if it was true he carried a gun, the lawsuit says. Ferlaino claims he replied he owned a gun but did not carry it on him at work.

Weiss told Ferlaino that Weiss had met with the property owners association's board of directors July 1 and that Ferlaino's conversation with his co-workers violated the company's "no tolerance policy," the lawsuit says. Ferlaino says he was fired July 2.

A message left Tuesday seeking comment on the lawsuit from the Lakes of the Four Seasons Property Owners Association Inc. was not immediately returned. Emails to the president and vice president of the association's board also went unanswered Tuesday night.

The association violated Indiana's "take your gun to work law," which was amended in 2011, because it required Ferlaino to divulge information about owing a gun and fired him because he's a gun owner, Ferlaino's attorney, Marissa McDermott, said in an email.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/former-lofs-employee-s-lawsuit-says-he-was-fired-for/article_2748e456-3de6-50c2-acc7-a72cf42bf6fd.html



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Former LOFS employee's lawsuit says he was fired for owning a gun (Original Post) beevul Nov 2015 OP
as the corpses pile by the tens of thousands gun owners only care about their shooting irons nt msongs Nov 2015 #1
As the corpses pile by the tens of thousands... beevul Nov 2015 #2
At least some care about lawsuit settlements. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #4
But if he was fired melm00se Nov 2015 #6
As the corpses pile by the tens of thousands beardown Nov 2015 #8
The crystal ball is clearing. Yes! I see a big settlement in your future. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #3
~~~ discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #5
Let them write a check for being ignorant. virginia mountainman Nov 2015 #7
No employer should be allowed to fire a worker for legal activities occurring petronius Nov 2015 #9
 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
2. As the corpses pile by the tens of thousands...
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 02:25 PM
Nov 2015

As the corpses pile by the tens of thousands, gun control proponents can't be bothered to look at root causes, or even differentiate between homicide and suicide.

melm00se

(5,045 posts)
6. But if he was fired
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 02:45 PM
Nov 2015

because he admitted he was gay or a union organizer or a registered democrat or any other activity you support, you'd rapidly achieve orbit but here, he owns a gun (which you don't support) so its ok to put him out on his ass.

beardown

(363 posts)
8. As the corpses pile by the tens of thousands
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 05:00 PM
Nov 2015

gun banners only care about their self righteous impotence as achievable solutions are ignored and discounted and millions more die from other causes that are not worthy of their disdain.

You added nothing to the discussion, but a canned insult which now leaves you free to tap dance on your moral high ground soaked by the blood of those dying from causes almost certainly intensified by democratic party losses and a rightward democratic shift partly caused by advocates of gun confiscation, gun shaming, and simple Reaganesque solutions.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,565 posts)
5. ~~~
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 02:39 PM
Nov 2015

I'm glad Bloomberg is on their side; I won't have to concern myself that people are going without to pay some well deserved fines and punitive damages since Mike can pick up the tab.

petronius

(26,657 posts)
9. No employer should be allowed to fire a worker for legal activities occurring
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 05:46 PM
Nov 2015

outside the workplace (nor even, I'd be inclined to argue, for illegal activities that have no impact on or relation to the job). Unless he actually broke some legitimate in-the-workplace rule, I hope he wins his case...

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