Fired for attending his son’s birth, father gets financial support, job offers

Four days ago, Lamar Austin became the proud father of the first baby born in Concord, losing his job after missing work to be with his family at the hospital. He chose to remain positive, he said, focusing on his new son instead of the job he lost. “Sometimes you lose something and you get something even better,” he said Sunday afternoon while resting at Concord Hospital with his wife, Lindsay, and baby boy, Cainan.
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