Illegal Termination?

[jdkmarine]

I am currently in Alabama and was terminated from my job. I applied for unemployment benefits and they denied me saying I was discharged for theft. However, I was accused of theft but proved via surveillance video, credit card receipt, and date and time stamp via computer logs through the registers that I in fact did pay for the items they so accused me of stealing. They terminated my position anyways. There has been a string of terminations of managers within our district for the prior months for a reduction in hours needed to be paid as well as each store was given less man hours to schedule for work per shift. It is my assumption that they are firing individuals for any reason to not pay them their unemployment benefits regardless of their merit or truthfulness. What are my options. I have just sent an appeal to the unemployment board and probably will not hear back from them for at least a few weeks maybe even months.

 

[army judge]

If you have appealed the UI denial, you wait.
There's no way to expedite the appeal. :yes:
We're talking about a government agency, and time means less to government bureaucracies than it does to people in the real world. :dunno:
Your appeal is pending, and you are on stand by. :yawn:
I suppose you were told to keep filing your weekly (or regular reports), and be patient.

http://www.labor.alabama.gov/contacts/Hearings_Appeals.aspx



You can contact the Hearings and Appeals Division at: 1-800-321-9323 for more information about the process.




Currently UI appeals are taking about 12 weeks to be reviewed and a decision issued.


http://www.unemployment-tips.com/appeal-decision-taking-12-weeks-in-alabama.html

Here are a few more websites that might offer some additional insight into the UI appeals wormhole:




http://www.uchelpcenter.com/content/general-information-about-alabama





http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/denied-unemployment-benefits-appeal-process-32446.html




http://www.labor.alabama.gov/contacts/Hearings_Appeals.aspx





Good luck.....

 

[cbg]

This may or may not have been an unfair termination but it was not an illegal termination under any definition.

 

[Betty3]

This was not a wrongful/illegal termination. You need to look for other employment & hold to hear on the UI appeal.

 

[cbg]

FYI, even if you prevail in the UI appeal, that does not mean that the termination was illegal. The vast majority of people collecting unemployment were legally termed.