Does anyone here know anyone in the department of labor?
My husband had an injury at work and is being denied payment by US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. He now needs surgury to screw together a broken bone in his hand but the US DEPT OF LABOR IS REFUSING TO HELP.
We sent an appeal but it may take 6 months. We tried to hire a lawyer but most lawyers won't handle his case because my husband works for the post office and this makes it a federal case.
The one lawyer that we did talk to told us to pay him $1600 just to get initiated and that this would only be paying for his information.
They have not paid him since he has been out (for over 6 wks) he needs to be out even longer due to the surgery that he needs.
Please help: They denied his claim saying that he was put back to work on light duty on 4-29 but he was still out on doctor's orders at this time till 6-2. They wanted to make him work with a broken hand, doing the same job sorting mail but with one hand.
They asked for a more detailed doctor's excuse, which we sent them but they still denied it. Since then his doctor has increased his time out because the injury was not improving and he was in a cast for 6 wks. After the 6 wks the doctor took an MRI to see why it is not healing and found out that he had a broken bone that needs surgury. He has been or heavy pain medication as well.
This is ridiculous and it is not fair that just because you work for the government you have no rights!!!
They won't allow us to talk to anyone about this and no one answers our calls.
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