When a company fires you they get to determine if you can collect unemployment or not. Given the circumstances I would say there is no way this company grants these employees unemployment because the company has to pay into it.
Not exactly true. A company can opt to still give it to the employee whether they really deserve it or not. But a lot of times when they don't want to give it, and if the employee fights it, it will go through arbitration, which reminds me of a couple cases last year.
I had one worker beg me to fire her as she wanted to collect unemployment and be able to stay home for the summer with her kids. I told her I couldn't do that. So a week later she comes in my office and tells me that she did drugs and wants to take a drug test. Of course she fails it, and she's all happy thinking that she will be able to collect unemployment. WRONG!
Had another worker wanting to get fired, as he wanted to return to school fulltime and also be able to collect unemployment. So he starts coming in late and screws things up on purpose. He then thinks he can just stop coming to work. After 3 days of not calling in, he was fired. Next thing I know, he files for unemployment, he even tells the arbitration board that he should be eligible for unemployment compensation because he was fired for not going to work, LMAO.
And then there are the usual scammers who try to sue all the time saying they got hurt on the job. Some are professional victims, and have sued their previous 4 or 5 employers.
Had a kinda funny one recently, an employee was suing, saying he was fired because he was black. The kicker is- his office and everyone in it was also black. So he was suing saying that he was treated unfairly because of his shade of black. But some supervisors were darker and lighter than him and of course he lost. The lawyers are the ones who still win as it costs money to defend from all the frivolous claims.
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