Keep fingers crossed for my husband--please!

[dryan]

Today is my husband's appeal hearing for unemployment benefits. He was terminated on September 20th and his employer said he should be denied umeployment benefits. My husband appealed. The first appeal hearing was set for 11/15 at 8:00 AM and my husband was 2 minutes late because of an accident that occured on the road in front of the building. The hearing officer dismissed the case. I got on the phone with our legislator who set up another hearing, employer cancelled. Set up another hearing, employer cancelled. The hearing officer insists that it be held today one way or another - I think that she is getting tired of employer cancelling as well. Please, we are desperate; keep fingers crossed that our side will prevail. Then we have a better chance of prevailing in the arbitration scheduled for mid-January.

Thanks.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Good luck!

[blueknight]

3. double good luck!

hope he gets it! im sure it will come in handy this close to x-mas

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. TRIPLE good luck (now that the fascist anti-workers troll is gone)

Let that be a good omen!

[cleofus1]

2. best of luck...

I've had two of these with two different jobs and from what I know and have heard they almost always rule in favor of the business.

[Phentex]

4. Good luck! Hope it works out for you.

[RebelOne]

5. I have to make an appeal once.

The employer was a no-show at the hearing, so unemployment was awarded to me.

[DeepGreen]

6. Good Luck dryan !!

:thumbsup:

[TBreeze]

7. Good luck

[Coventina]

8. Sending good vibes....

[Hunting Deer]

9. What is the basis of their appeal?

Why are they denying the unemployment benefits? An employer's unemployment tax rate is set by the amount of unemployment dollars paid by the state vs the wages the employer paid in that state. An employee can still obtain unemployment without the employer being charged the cost on his rate record if the situation warrants it. There are times when an employer should not be penalized in his unemployment rate for termination of an employee; such as theft, vandalism, failure to appear for work, continual tardiness, harassment, etc. etc. etc.. Why was he terminated?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. With incomplete information, my sympathies tend to lie with the employee

rather than with the employer, by default.

I guess with you it's the other way around. Hmmm.

[Hunting Deer]

11. Just the facts

Just the facts, ma'am, nothing but the facts. That's all we want.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. As I said - default

Historically, it's employers who screw employees, not the other way around. That gives my default more credibility than yours.

Of course, should we come to know the guy in question did somnething truly outrageous, nobody would think the appeal has merit. But in this case, I doubt he'd appeal at all -- given the noticeable pro-business/anti-worker bias that seems to be prevalent in the USA nowadays.

Edit: I'm male.

[Brewman_Jax]

14. Good thoughts to you

from me and the cats. :thumbsup:

[Dora]

15. Good luck, and good luck again!

[shesemsmom]

16. Dear Father in heaven

let justice prevail!!!!!! Amen

[frictionlessO]

17. fingers crossed and creatively visualizing your arbitration...and a check!

[dryan]

18. Whole thing started about 2 1/2 years ago....

my boss's original supervisor was a woman who had had her job for about 15 years. (This is a truncated version of a very long story.) Anyway, she was very well liked but did not have a technical background. Her immediate subordinate campaigned to get her terminated (she later resigned and moved out of state)and he got her job. Even though he never really said it outright, he intimated that he was going to make life rough for all the employees that the woman had hired -- like saying they were unqualified, etc. My husband was the political chair for our union but he was always careful to separate his personal life from his work. A friend of ours sent him some digital photos of an appearance that Bill McBride made in Orlando. One afternoon when my husband was eatting lunch at his desk, he looked at the photos and his boss saw him. The next day my husband took off for a doctor's appointment and his boss had a technician 'hack' into his computer to print the photos. The boss filed a reprimand against my husband for 'loafing' and unauthorized use of state equipment and used the photos as evidence. It was to step two and it came to a "Mexican standoff" type of situation with both sides accepting some responsibility. The boss though is a vindictive ************ and it soon became very clear that he was going to find some pretext to get rid of my husband. My husband even applied for other positions but nothing happened. Anyway, in July my husand performed the annual inventory for his department and cleared out a lot of mess in the warehouse just before he left for a few days to attend a conference. When he got back the warehouse was a mess with paper, 'peanuts', cardboard boxes and junk all over. He complained. On August 13th, he received a letter of 'predetermination' with photos of you got it..photos of the messy warehouse. On August 28th, the predetermination hearing was held for 'neglect of duty'. My husband went with our union staff member -- that is another whole story -- but he was finally terminated on 9/20/04 for 'neglect of duty' which frankly is pretty much whatever the other side says it is.