"If my younger colleagues were to get pregnant, the same thing would happen to them," Scarpa said.Venice (ANTARA News/AKI) - A nursing home in the northern city of Venice sacked a 50-year-old woman carer for "taking too much time off" after she had donated one of her kidneys to save her sick brother, local newspaper Il Gazzettino reported on Monday.
The woman, Francesca Scarpa received a phone-call from her employer telling her that her contract would not be renewed because she had been off work for five weeks after the operation to remove her kidney.
"They didn`t renew my contract and just phoned to say they no longer needed me as I`d taken too much time off, although I`d worked there for over a year," Scarpa said.
"If my younger colleagues were to get pregnant, the same thing would happen to them," she added.
Scarpa worked at the nursing home on short-term three-months contracts issued by an unnamed employment agency.
Her most recent contract expired on 31 December. Although doctors had told Scarpa not to return to work for approximately eight weeks, on 3 January she told her employers she was prepared to return sooner but could not lift heavy objects.
She had one of her kidneys removed on 26 November as her brother was in urgent need of the transplant.
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