Kern v. South Baltimore General Hospital

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• discussing elements of.a statutory claim for wrongful discharge under the Worker’s Compensation Act
• Maryland statute states that employee may not be discharged \solely\ for filing workers' compensation claim; absenteeism due to injury legitimate ground for discharge
• Plaintiff unable to sustain a claims where she admits that absenteeism was a factor in her discharge
• “To sustain a wrongful discharge action under Maryland’s workers’ compensation statute, an employee must allege that he or she was discharged solely and directly because of filing for benefits under § 39A....”
• employee who was no longer qualified to perform job duties and excessively absent because of compensable injury could be terminated when it became obvious that disability period was undeterminable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).