Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Walmart lies

Unemployment is taken from payroll, it is part of what is figured for your employment package and is totally paid by the worker, regardless of how you sl--t "employer contributions." Thats like saying your vacation time or ppto time is gift from walmart. Employees earn that money. Government and companies use employer contribution terminology to weaken workers rights and protectons.

If you take severence pay can you also collect unemployment? Or did you accept termination of your job?

Not guarantee of employment does that mean you are temporary employment? When they hire you or at least when they hired me I thought after 90 days I was offered guarantee employment. How does this work? Is this fair labor practice?

Did unemployment gia down because employers are not guaranteeing you employment?

Does signing a paper that states no guarantee of employment effect whether or not you can get unemployment?

Wonder if the dept. of labor or census dept can give stats of who is being trashed.

I was fired late last year after nearly 20 years with walmart. Management made up horrible lies about me, wrote me up for one bs thing after another, and made my life a living hell. After they finally got me, they fought like demons to block my unemployment $$ and the judge sided with them. I called a lawyer who told me my only option was to sue and he laughed at me and told me to cut my losses. So yea, there crooked as sin alright. The poster of this was right, I should of documented everything better and got witnessses, thats what screwed me. I'm at a new job now and things are better, but I sure coulda used that money I had coming and they STOLE.

Where do you see premiums being deducted from your check?

This is really going viral love it. I've had these same thoughts on my mind for a long time to. Dont pay any attention to these haters your onto an important issue here ,I applaud you!

all you have to do is threaten to sue - they will always approve when that happens - walmart is afraid of any litigation

uoi

Productivity is so relative , so inconsistent, its a misused tool with biases built in. Your not being productive as compared to who (you).

Great post!!! Unemployment is the best!!!!!!!!!!

@ iym, actually, yes! I'm glad to see this too. Very helpful for ueses of this forum for all of us good people to know how many of you enemies are among us.

What a great use of your precious time!

OP here. This was all an interesting experiment I conducted; I wanted to see how many people on here are management or management wanna-bes, or otherwise take sides with this villainous, scum swilling 'company'.

Of course I'm aware of the 1935 Unemployment Compensation Act.

It is both alarming and heartbreaking to see how the vast majority of you respondents slanted your posts in favor of denying employees their fair compensation upon losing their jobs. Some of you tried to twist words and justify unemployment on basis of incompetence or negligence----which I clearly stated I was not including under a displaced employee's fair compensation rights.

A lot of people who devoted much of their lives to the betterment of this 'company' have unfairly lost their long term jobs. They 100% deserve their Unemployment Insurance. I don't give a sh!t what ANY of you say in opposition........................and if you truly, genuinely still feel that Walmart is above accountability for the destruction they're bringing into the lives of innocent workers, I hope you all roast in hell. With broken backs :)

I disagree. If you were fired for attendance, poor productivity, etc, you should not receive unemployment insurance. Those are things totally under your control. The company didn’t terminate you. You terminated yourself.

*In many cases companies will NOT sent representatives to an appeal.

There are both federal and state unemployment taxes. In all cases the employer pays the federal. At the state level, Alaska, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have employee funded unemployment taxes. In all other states, the employer pays this tax. Always appeal if denied. In many cases companies will to sent representatives to an appeal. Generally, unless you've been fired for cause or left voluntarily, you will get unemployment.

I do not pay anything into unemployment. What state takes it out? (I have worked in 4 states)

To wie, I think you must work for corp. office or be management, otherwise why would you split hair on this? Word it however you want, you advocate screwing people who've already been screwed!

I agree the last thing you should have to do is get dicked on your unemployment after you already got dicked out of your long term job people need to fight for this. Good post!

Fight for it any way, it's still your money

You are wrong employees do not pay for unemployment insurance benefits out of their pocket (or paycheck). Individual employees do not contribute a dime to the American unemployment insurance fund. If you feel you were terminated for unjust cause, then by all means apply for unemployment and appeal if needed BUT..... In reality your employer contributes to the unemployment insurance fund not you.