Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania

Is request for medical/mechanical written excuse legal?

A restaurant owner has a young female employee who called off ill 2.5 hrs prior to her shift. She has no health insurance through them and is not paid for sick time off.She

does not currently have any health insurance and is having severe financial problems. She legitimately had the flu.She had never called off during her entire employment history with them.

The owner demands she is seen by an MD and provides written documentation or she is not permitted to return to work.When she contacted him re her financial issues, he simply hung up on her. She called back and was told by the assistant manager that she would have an excuse or lose her job.She, being financially devistated already, is forced to go to an emergency room, pay for a visit to have an MD tell her she simply has the flu.She is also forced to return to work, sick.

Is it legal for him to threaten loss of job and demand that someone pay for a physician when they are financially unable to do this?? This man is also extremely verbally abusive to his female employees..he has fired numerous women for any failure to obey him for any reason.They are all very young,unexperienced women. I am wondering what recourse these people have against him,if any.

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