When filing for unemployment, if you were being harassed in the work place and your?
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Start by being as honest as you can. Write down your experiences to make sure you have an accurate picture of what happened and to communicate the story as clearly and accurately as possible. Collect any necessary documentation, including any paperwork you have from your EAP counseling, any bad reviews or written warnings you recieved, or email documents regarding those things that you may have saved. Your employer is legally bound to give you copies of all things they have on file. Request this be sent to you via certified mail, and have those nearby when you have the initial conversation with EDD. If they do not send those to you, tell the person you speak with the date you requested copies of your file and tell tha person you have not recieved copies of the documentation. You might want to see if you can get a letter from your EAP counselor documenting your visit(s) to that person, particularly if it was because you were suffering from workplace stress. The burden of proof is on your former employer to show that you were terminated with just cause. If they did not create any paper trail (bad reviews, written warnings about your performance or absenteeism) they will have a hard time to show that you were fired with just cause. I would not mention during the phone call that you have a pending lawsuit. There may have been harassment and/or a hostile environment, but that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on your being fired, and it might make you look like you are, indeed, out to get someone, or at the very least, make some money.
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Contact your employer(s).
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Yup where I live it is legal and it has happened to me.  There is nothing you can do about it.  I even went as far as getting a lawyer and they even told me there was nothing that could be done.  However, the lawyer contacted the place where I worked and they changed my file to say I left rather than I was fired.
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There is no law that states they can not fire you over the phone. I would ask them, of course, why you are being fired. And find out when you can expect your final check and what monies will be included in your final check (unused vacation, sick, etc.). I would also find out when you can expect your COBRA, 401(k) paperwork. I would also ask them if they plan to contenst any unemployment claims that you make with the state. And what their employment verification policy is. Most companies only give title, dates of employment and salary if a potential future employer calls them for a reference. I would confirm that this is their policy. \n\nIf you feel you are being fired wrongfully, I would request a copy of your personnel file and contact an attorney.
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Part of the enjoyment of participating in this service is trying to decipher the sometimes incoherent questions.\n\nLet's see if I guess what you are asking.\n\nYou are an employee somewhere and you think someone else is harassing you.\n\nIf the harasser is your employer, and the harassment is based on one of the protected categories [age, gender, ethnicity, religion, color, disability, race] then you might have some protection.\n\n"Get back to work!" is usually not actionable harassment.\n"Get back to work, you stupid old Lutheran men!" probably is actionable.\n\nIf the harasser is a fellow employee and your employer does not protect you from it, you might have an action against the employer and the harasser.\n\nIf the harasser is a customer, you are not required to tolerate that behavior and can force your employer to remove the harasser.\n\nRather than threaten to contact your attorney, quietly contact the lawyer and discuss the situation. Your lawyer is in a much better position to advise you whether or not you have a cause of action. And, making threats usually just makes you look pathetic.\n\nIn my expereince, about 2% of the cases were worth pursuing - the rest were just situations where the employee had to "suck it up" or find another job.\n\nGood luck to you
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Unless you have a contract, you are an "employee at will."  What your employer is telling you is that they want you gone, and would fire you except they'd have to pay unemployment for you.\n\nIt's time to move on.
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Got some examples of what they're doing?  I can give specifics with how to deal with the situation if I knew.  Otherwise, go off on them--make it loud, don't beat around the bush, make sure you do it while others are present, and tell that individual you're tired of putting up with the childish BS.  If that doesn't work, report them to your supervisor, and document each instance in case you need to file legally (it's called a hostile work environment).  This is my suggestion, since my preferred tactics for this type of scenario aren't for everyone.
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yes. I lost a job that way once. They let me start before the police background check came in and they fired me a week later.
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Wellll, hmmmm\n\nIf you don't want to wreck the place, or call people names, or do anything that your boss can take you to court for to get paid for - like wrecking things, losing clients, and running up the phone bill...\n\n...then you could refuse to do work you disagree with\n...be late repeatedly\n...leave work early without telling anyone\n...be absent repeatedly\n...take unscheduled breaks frequently\n...make your lunch hour last and last - day after day\n...if you have a computer at work download a \n   messenger and chat the day away. \n\nIf you do all of these it really shouldn't take long before you find yourself on the unemployment line.
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My Daughter had the same problem, She Quit went to the unemployment office,got unemployment,although She should have Sued them!!! she was in warrentys in a Axel Co.\n   Her boss screamed an threw things?? one day he screamed\n "If you all dont F***** like IT you all can hit theF******* door??\n  an she did.. now she is getting Paid while looking for a good job.
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I would report it to the Human Resources department myself, if you thought it was a real threat to your boss. She was probably just blowing off, I think.. But maybe..
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if you can prove that your employer knowingly created a hostile working enviroment you damn sure can sue.....but it is very hard to prove unless you can get other employees to come forward with similar complaints and facts............like pictures,witnesses etc...\nyou could have them investigated by the authorities and if that proves their crimes you might have a case that way too
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I would confront them, let them know you take pride in your honesty and want to be a good employee. who wants a reference in this computer age saying your a thief
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It's at least unfair.  But I'm wondering how that worked.  If he hired her just so he could lay her off, he is paying for the privilege, since his account with the unemployment compensation office is the one that is charged. [Edit:  Is he a middle manager in a company that is thus being bilked of the unemployment insurance money?  Then his boss needs to be notified.  Can you do so anonymously?] \n\nIf he did it to help her gouge money out of someone else's account, how did that work?  Those people (the ones being cheated) need to know that the job with your boss was a fake.  Who is going to tell them?  If you interfere, you are going to get in trouble yourself.\n\nIf it were me, I'd take this as evidence that your boss does not mind being sneaky, and start looking for a better job.
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Eesh.  You've got a difficult situation.\n\nI would not file a lawsuit unless you want this to drag on for years and other women have been harassed as well and complained to no avail.\n\nI would, however, file an official complaint against him so that it's on his track record with the company.  That way, should another woman be in this situation, the company can't say they didn't know about it.\n\nIf the company penalizes you for the complaint, then you have a case.  Otherwise you can't blame the company when they acted on your complaint for not doing something when they weren't aware.  In this case, they seem to have reacted to the issue.. but still something official needs to be filed.
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For me it would depend on how much I like my job... If I wouldn't mind too much having to leave because of the tension caused by filing suit, I'd go to HR and a lawyer... If I really loved my job, I'd try first going to my boss and telling him that I know he's uncomfortable with what happened and that I am ,too, but that it's not fair to be treating me differently because I accidentally happened upon HIS indescretion....he may not even realize he's being a jerk. (To be on the safe side, tape this conversation without telling him, so if it's needed, you have proof of your side of the story for HR, if he apologises and stops being a jerk to you, you can always destroy the tape)
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They wouldn't take you serious if you left, and told them,  they would think you were just mad ex-employee. go to the Boss, in strictest of sincerety and confidence and state your observations, let him decide. Then, if you don't like the way they handle it, then leave and report it to higher authority until it is resolved. Never watch an injustice, at least try to make it better.