Labor Laws, Termination, Unemployment

You have to have worked a minimum number of quarters for an employer within a certain period of time in order to collect unemployment, and I think it's equivalent to about 6 months. Labor has been borrowing in order to pay unemployment claims, so they may have tightened up on actually following the rules instead of treating unemployment checks as a right to anybody who loses a job.

My father was a sociopath. I'm not entirely sure of business owners in general, but I would say the bulk of lawyers are sociopaths too. Me, well, I'm the psychopath in the immediate family =)

Oh, I need to throw in psychologists being sociopaths too.

I've only met two who gave a crap.

My father was a sociopath. I'm not entirely sure of business owners in general, but I would say the bulk of lawyers are sociopaths too. Me, well, I'm the psychopath in the immediate family =)

well you're the only psychopath I've ever thought I'd like to have a few beers with... haha

& I agree on lawyers (and you can lump in 99% of CEO's also... I was more speaking of smaller business people) probably 60% of police too :-/

I agree, some day we need to have a few beers...

I've calmed significantly since I was properly diagnosed and given something better than Haldol (look it up, it is a nasty turn-you-into-a-zombie drug)

Under the law a person has to be working six months in order to be considered an "employee". During these first six months an employee can be terminated without "cause" and they are not protected under the wrongful discharge act. This is considered the probation period. In govt your probation can last as long as two years. The only claim they can make is discrimination/eeoc which is protective regardless of tenure.

The fact that this employee was a supervisor, further exempts them from protection as management is not covered either.