‘Not Pulling Her Weight’: Cancer-Stricken Employee at Georgia State Was Fired for Lack of ‘Productivity,’ During Chemo and Radiation Treatments, Lawsuit Claims

‘Not Pulling Her Weight’: Cancer-Stricken Employee at Georgia State Was Fired for Lack of ‘Productivity,’ During Chemo and Radiation Treatments, Lawsuit Claims

A former civil rights investigator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, who was diagnosed with cancer three weeks after she was hired, claims in a federal discrimination lawsuit that she was fired for not being productive enough while undergoing physically taxing treatment for the disease.She also claims her supervisors did not agree with how she credibly assessed a sexual harassment complaint by a graduate student against a GSU professor, an…