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Unemployment Benefits?
Ok, i am in Texas and its a "right to work state". Now two weeks a go a fellow employee was fired, then asked to resign. She wrote a letter of resignation because they threatened not to pay her PTO. Then this week they came in and did the same for me. Telling me that I was conspiring with her to draw up a law suit, and continued to accuse me of stealing. Which i would never do. Then asked me to sign a paper that said I did all of the above and that I have ended my employment. I refused to sign and left. They have down in their books that my last day of work was actually three days before the above conversation took place. Now they are telling me that I need to turn in a resignation letter so the above reasons are not put in my file for termination. Is this legal? I feel like this is black mail and they are trying to cover their tales so I can't file for unemployment, or draw a lawsuit. But technically they fired me with out a reason since I wasn't notified for three days. Any help?
Several points of interest..
1) I refused to sign and left.: did you LEAVE or were you told you were fired to leave..
if you left on your own on the BELIEVE they were going to fire you.. then they can claim you abandoned the job... if however you were told to leave and that you were termed you should be good
2) NEVER sign any admission to guilt unless you are under the advice of a lawyer.. simply don't sign it..
3) who cares what they have in their books either as the last day or cause for leaving.. they can't communicate the cause of termination without facing slander (or defamation i always get em confused) cases.. so all they can really say is you did work there you don't anymore.
they will in all probability contest your unemployment... it will go to a phone based trail with an arbitration judge.. and if they can't show just cause for you being fired.. (and no conspiring to setup a law suite is NOT justification) you will win and get unemployment back to the date of termination...
Carl Person 11-18-08 Air date
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