I am currently in an unusual situation. I am in danger of losing my job and need to know if I will be able to receive unemployment benefits.
I work with one other employee for an individual, a sole proprietor. Currently my employer and the other employee are out of the country and are not expected to return for six weeks.
My employer has been loosing his sense of reality of the past year and a half and has recently become a danger to him. I received an email from his friends and family this weekend stating that they are going to try an intervention when he returns and try to get him the physiological help he needs. My issue is my employer does not know of this. I am in a situation where I am supposed to set up his next trip, which will include subletting his apartment. If the family steps in and sets something up without his knowledge my employer will loose about $15,000 and have no place to live when he returns home. If I work with his family to protect his finances and his business, I will be disobeying my employer and I can get fired. My employer will be very angry and this will most likely happen. I know that if I am fired because I did not do "my job" I will not get unemployment insurance. I am planning on getting everything in writing from his family if they direct me to not sublet his apartment but I am not sure if this will protect me.
Please advise as I do not want my employer to loose his money or home but I do need to protect myself as well.
I work with one other employee for an individual, a sole proprietor. Currently my employer and the other employee are out of the country and are not expected to return for six weeks.
My employer has been loosing his sense of reality of the past year and a half and has recently become a danger to him. I received an email from his friends and family this weekend stating that they are going to try an intervention when he returns and try to get him the physiological help he needs. My issue is my employer does not know of this. I am in a situation where I am supposed to set up his next trip, which will include subletting his apartment. If the family steps in and sets something up without his knowledge my employer will loose about $15,000 and have no place to live when he returns home. If I work with his family to protect his finances and his business, I will be disobeying my employer and I can get fired. My employer will be very angry and this will most likely happen. I know that if I am fired because I did not do "my job" I will not get unemployment insurance. I am planning on getting everything in writing from his family if they direct me to not sublet his apartment but I am not sure if this will protect me.
Please advise as I do not want my employer to loose his money or home but I do need to protect myself as well.