Comment by tpm

> Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave?

It's not legal to fire an employee on a sick leave in our country. They have to come back to work and then you can fire them. The employer is not paying their wage during the sick leave anyway, they get money from the social and health insurances. So there is very little downside for the company to keeping the employee employed. And if they employee is somehow faking it, that's an issue to check for the insurance companies.

> It's already becoming a common strategy to immediately take mental health/sick leave.

Maybe the companies should ask themselves very hard why this is happening.