Suit challenges sick day firing
NEW YORK, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- A former security guard with New York's Tishman Speyer real-estate firm claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for missing work due to chest pains. Gerald Murtha claims in his $3 million lawsuit that his former employer of 15
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