FMLA - Unemployment Compensation???
traceyb
16 Posts
Ok, this is a first time FMLA deal for me.
Ee off due to personal time snowmobile accident.
Surely he can't claim Unemployment during his leave?? Right??
Thanks,
Tracey
Ee off due to personal time snowmobile accident.
Surely he can't claim Unemployment during his leave?? Right??
Thanks,
Tracey
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I have NO idea how/when they obtained their information regarding what jobs/industries but I know that I have never been asked to participate in any type of survey but anyway, there is your answer.
Anyway, I thought I was really in trouble because the judge gave me a "lesson" in unemployment hearings and said that he was only there to consider the details of the separation - NOT the employee's ability to work (which was the entire basis of my appeal). He told me I'd need to contact a different branch of the DOL, but because I had accidentally hung up on him at the beginning of the call, I didn't feel in a position to pump him for info.
After the hearing ended, I tried contacting our state Unemployment people who just said that if I didn't like the decision, I could appeal it again. Ugh. So I bombarded my favorite local state DOL people with pleas for help, and I finally got referred to someone in the state Unemployment office who very delicately and per HIPAA said they were aware of the situation and had investigated it properly. That's all I wanted!
I then got the decision letter in the mail today and we WON - the judge actually felt that the employee was discharged for misconduct. I don't quite get it, but I'll take it. (Quick details, he was supposed to return a form to request his leave to be extended after he ran out of FML and he didn't return it. Says he didn't get it but I talked to him on the phone and told him it was coming, and he didn't request another form, nor did he request it when I called to term him). He's DQ'ed for 12 weeks.
You have hit a nerve of mine that has been raw for years. I have never seen such blatant gifts of undeserving unemployment payments to those that should not even be allowed to reap one penny worth of benefits. Our unemployment system has become a secondary welfare system that rewards poor performance, lack of effort, misconduct and nonexistent work ethic. Its as if our bureaucrats just can't wait to hand out money to those that simply do not want to work. I could go on quite a rant right now, but my blood pressure is starting to rise as i write this.
She ruled against us, I appealed to the commissioner, got a call from her supervisor apologizing, and was awarded a new hearing. This time, a more alert judge ruled in our favor.
Now days, it's all by phone, which I like.
at this abuse of entitlement! I finally got
a response from the state of MI, who told me
to apply for a hearing to protest any payment to
this guy. He says his back is bad, and he's
restricted from work for three more months.
Oh, let's pay unemployment to this "actively
seeking, able to work, bottom feeder..." la,la,la.
Yikes!