Company to pay $200K for firing employee with 'chemo brain'

摘要

Chemotherapy had so affected the employee's short-term memory that she had to take notes on her conversations so as not to forget them five minutes later. She would get lost while driving to company sites where she'd been before.rnA management challenge? You bet. And the employer failed, at a cost of $200,000.rnThe employee worked at a Pennsylvania facility of Agere Systems. After she underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, memory problems known as "chemo brain" surfaced.