MiddleFingerMom
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Sun Mar-13-11 03:54 AM
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Is a company that lays you off charged for some of your unemployment payments? |
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. . . Serious question. Otherwise, why do some companies contest your filing for them? . . .
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Sun Mar-13-11 06:59 AM
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1. my understanding..and I very well could be wrong |
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companies get charged a % of salary paid as unemployment insurance.The more people you have filing the higher the % gets.
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Sun Mar-13-11 07:12 AM
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2. It costs them money. Here's some info. |
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Sun Mar-13-11 08:17 AM
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3. Thank you very much!!! |
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. . . We're going through an upheaval where I work and this knowledge could be extremely helpful to me. . . . Anyone else with anything further? . . .
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Sun Mar-13-11 09:31 AM
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4. isn't it like an insurance premium...? |
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Edited on Sun Mar-13-11 09:31 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
the more a company uses it (is filed against) the more the rates go up. something like that.
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Sun Mar-13-11 11:07 AM
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My organization's unumployment coverage has doubled in a year.
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Sun Mar-13-11 09:46 AM
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5. The company pays into a general fund with every paycheck, and a similar amount is deducted |
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Edited on Sun Mar-13-11 09:47 AM by old mark
from your paycheck every pay, as part of the tax deductions. I once worked for a company that went out of business over a weekend without telling any of the workers...I filed for unemployment, and was told that they NEVER made any contributions to the fund, but that I would be paid the full amount I was due because it was not my fault and the business owners were in big legal trouble for evading taxes.
Look at the deductions on your pay stub and you will find something like UC-that's it. Really, you are getting some of your own money back, and the company figures this as a cost of doing business and it is not a drain on the taxpayers at all.
Some employers say they will contest your filing, but they are just being pricks, and most states won't allow them to stop your payments if you qualify...
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