Pushed out of Tim's — fired for too many sick days

“Precarious” is a fancy word to describe conditions facing low-income workers these days. “Fired” was the translation for Shauntel Snowden one day last month.
“I went into the office having a job and I walked out of the office with no job. Not even five minutes.”
Shauntel Snowden, 24, is at home at her kitchen table, holding back the tears. She says she was fired from Tim Hortons on May 29, midway through her shift.
The reason? She’s taken too many sick