Firm ordered to pay compensation for firing HIV-positive man

Firm ordered to pay compensation for firing HIV-positive man

CHIBA, Japan - An HIV-positive Japanese-Brazilian man (R, back to camera), who was dismissed by a plastic-processing firm following an HIV test in 1997, holds a press conference in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on June 12. Earlier in the day, the Chiba District Court ordered the company and a former director of a hospital in Chiba Prefecture to compensate the man, who is 35, saying his dismissal was based on a blood test conducted by the company and hospital without his approval. The court also ordered the dismissal be annulled.

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