Debbie Florence, mother of slain Jenny McMechen, holds her hand on her heart while wearing a tee shirt with the photo of her daughter, as she waits with supporters to testify at a Judiciary hearing at The Legislative Office Building in Hartford last week. McMechen was killed New Years Eve 2001 by her ex boyfriend, by whom she was pregnant by at the time. Her mother wants to see an increase in the penalty for the loss of an unborn child.
Employees “reasonably should expect to experience some level of emotional distress, even significant emotional distress,” in the workplace, according to the Connecticut Supreme Court, which ruled last week that workers cannot sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress before they are terminated from a job.
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