Unemployment Laws and Other Useful ResourcesUnemployment laws offer American workers the basic protection of partial wage replacement when it is clear that you lost your job through no fault of your own. Sounds simple .. right? Well it should be and probably used to be in the distant past when most of the precedent case law regarding what is and what is not good cause was set. It is not unusual to find precedent decisions referencing case facts in the 1940's. But working for a living has changed a lot in the last 70 years, right along with people in general and most importantly, the methods and resources employers can now access to not pay benefits as often as they did in the past. The bar you have to hurdle today to get benefits is not the same bar your grandpa or great grandma might have had to hurdle. Many corporate employers hand over the handling of unemployment claims to an unemployment cost control company. I know, I worked for a couple. CCC's may claim they do not abuse the unemployment appeal process relentlessly by appealing even cases that have no merits to win. But, I know differently. They often abuse the system by relying on nothing more than an employee's ignorance about maintaining an at will employment relationship. And this to win unemployment appeals that had no merits in the first place to keep a client happy. This is why I was relieved when I was first laid off .. so I wouldn't have to partake anymore in a process that discounts and has no remorse for the collateral damage they may cause all in the name of saving money for employers. This is precisely why I recommend unemployment appeal representation to the unemployed because it's way past time for employees to fight fire with fire when it can benefit them the most. Lower level (or the first) unemployment hearing is a proceeding controlled by administrative law and rules of procedure. These administrative unemployment hearings which allow for arguing the facts of your case, rely on the unemployment laws and precedent case law to reach a decision. Do not be the only one at your unemployment appeal hearing that doesn't know it is the rules and prior precedent decisions for collecting unemployment that control how the game is supposed to be played .. because that is what further appeals are based on .. how the game was played. Federal Unemployment Comparison Chartbooks
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