Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

Re: heart attack on job, can company refuse work return?

You know, before we all went to law school, we were human beings. I would like to engage for a moment in the legal fiction that we still remain so. Sue them? FOR WHAT???? Their compassion? Suppose this was not an employment at wlll state. Suppose, moreover you had BOTH a collective bargaining agreement AND a written contract of employment. What law do you think requires the Employer to take you back to do the hard physical labor that will almost certainly kill you? Indeed, if they did, a savvy personal injury lawyer could probably make a good wrongful death case or negligent homicide one out of it. If the Unemployment Insurance ALJ thinks the injury is worker compensation covered, that is the end of it. The reasonable accomodation here is to let you find a job somewhere else that won't kill you.