Mum 'fired' after daughter killed
A NSW woman claims she was fired from work because she took leave after her daughter was allegedly murdered.
Jenny Doyle from Mulwala in southern NSW was working as a manager for a catering company.
On April 17, her 24-year-old daughter Kara was shot, allegedly by her boyfriend after she confronted him about him making a pass at her friend.
Her boyfriend, 25-year-old Victorian man Mehmet Torun, has been charged with her murder.
After Ms Doyle found out about her daughter’s injuries, she rushed to be at her side in Melbourne.
Her daughter was in intensive care for five days, and Ms Doyle told Fairfax Media that the only contact her employer had with her in that time was asking her about the banking.
“I was really upset because it wasn't a 'how are you, how's everything going'. It was literally... 'have you done the banking and where are the keys'.”
Kara passed away from her injuries and after her death, Ms Doyle’s GP gave her a certificate saying she was suffering from ‘major depression’ and wouldn’t be able to return to work until July.
It wasn’t until Ms Doyle contacted Centrelink with a question that she found out she had lost her job.
According to Fairfax, she then received a letter three weeks after the shooting saying the company was "unable to keep the position open until 29/07/2013 due to the position type and location of site". However another letter sent on the same day allegedly said $1150 had been missing from the canteen since the day Kara was shot and they wondered where it was.
Ms Doyle said she did take a $300 float home but she had already returned it.
The managing director of her employer denied Ms Doyle had lost her job and that they just wanted the money back.
"She's not terminated, she has never been terminated. Pending the proper investigation, she's free to return to work if she's done nothing wrong. You want to make mileage out of this, go right ahead," he told Fairfax.
