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SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Two women who were fired for taking time off to help relatives hit by Hurricane Katrina have been offered their jobs back by employers hit by bad publicity.
Barbara Roberts, a Missouri woman, took a few days off to care for her granddaughter while the girl's parents were stranded in New Orleans.
The president of Positronic Industries in Springfield told the Kansas City Star he realized the company did not have an appropriate policy for people hit by disasters. But John Gentry acknowledged the company had received 1,000 e-mails objecting to Roberts' termination, some from as far away as New Zealand and India.
In Tennessee, Kolonie Sims of Midstate was offered her job back at a Family Dollar Store, the Nashville Tennesseean said. Sims missed work after her father asked her to come down to Mississippi to get a younger brother and sister and take them to safety.
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