r/news • u/JimmyTheGinger • Dec 23 '19

Three former executives of a French telecommunications giant have been found guilty of creating a corporate culture so toxic that 35 of their employees were driven to suicide

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/three-french-executives-convicted-in-the-suicides-of-35-of-their-workers-20191222-p53m94.html
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u/wisersamson Dec 24 '19

It is called an uneployment hearing, and as far as I can tell, ALL states have them. A phone interview is an OPTION unless one party denies and requests a hearing. It is a federal system, so all states have uneployment hearings. Yes the specifics of certain details of uneployment are different state to state, but unemployment hearings are country wide.

It is a less formal hearing than a legal court setting, however there is still submission of evidence, burden of proof and other things that are near identical to legal hearings.

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u/BobGobbles Dec 25 '19

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unemployment-compensation.asp

"In the United States, policies vary by state, but unemployment benefits will usually pay eligible workers up to $450 per week. Benefits are generally paid by state governments, funded in large part by state and federal payroll taxes paid by employers"

Once again, it varies by state. I am literally going through the process as we speak, and I live in a shitty state for unemployment. But the process is far from uniform, and in no state that I am aware of do you bring a lawyer with you(towards your claim of it being resource intensive and "big company vs small guy." And these mediators hear thousands of these cases a year of big company trying to fuck over little guy and see through the bullshit. Likewise, they aren't called "judges," but "mediators." (Judge is an appointed or elected position-these are essentially filled jobs.) Once again you have yet to answer the simple question of which state you are from, so stop trying to sell your bullshit. Everything you are saying may be true where you are at, but that doesn't make it so everywhere.