Ram27 wrote:Tri, don't you have the right to file an appeal and go before a referee and to present your case?
Supposedly. Last time in SC, I was not allowed to do so and told I did not have the right. I was allowed to send in documentation, which was quite well prepared. I was not allowed to be present when the former employee was confronted with the documentation.
What happens in my experience in both North Carolina and South Carolina has been that they find in favor of the employee unless they shot and killed someone in the workplace.
I lost several that I believed I should have easily won, got quite legal in my firing of employees, documenting warnings, etc. Took managers and other employees as witnesses to the hearings when I was allowed to do so.
Same result.
SC actually changed their laws recently to prevent someone being fired for cause from drawing unemployment benefits. They did this because the fund was going bankrupt and required a federal bailout that has to be paid back.
I do think the declining benefit system would work.
There are procedures for an employer to follow to dispute a claim that supposedly work.
it's a kangaroo court in favor of the employee.
F!ck em, it's a better business practice and increases my bottom line to be positioned as I now am on this matter.
Sucks for the people who come by and send me unsolicited resumes, though.
Not my problem.