Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Be careful mixing job, benefits terminations

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When it comes to terminating benefits along with jobs, employers must take care to remember the two may not mix — at least in the eyes of the legal system.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court held last week that Claire Cole, a former secretary for the department of public works in Salem, Mass., should have received full disability benefits after she suffered a heart attack within an hour of hearing she would lose her job in March 2000.


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