Vaughn Sawyer III, 29, a Walmart team leader in Auburn, Maine, says he was fired the day after leaving work on 19 September to be with his dying grandmother. Sawyer says he had informed his supervisor that he needed to leave after being told his grandmother had only hours to live and planned to return to complete bereavement paperwork.
According to Sawyer's account, he returned to the store later that evening but could not find a supervisor to help with the paperwork.
