What is the name of your state?Indiana
My wife got back from a six week maternity leave, and the manager called her in and told her that he'd like her to be the manager of the company. A couple of days later a co-worker complained that she thought she was getting less than a different co-worker so the two looked at the pay books. The boss somehow found out about it and asked them individually. After three times the co-worker finally admitted to looking at the payroll. He then asked my wife three times, and she denied it all three times. That night she couldn't take the guilt and called him and admitted to her mistake. The next day he told her she should resign because of what happened. She said that she didn't think that what she did deserved her to resign. He asked again, and once again she refused to resign. She said, "If you want me to leave you know what you have to do", so he fired her. She then (a week or so later applied for unemployment). A week after that she found out her boss was keeping her from obtaining unemployment because she "was discharged due to a work-related breach of duty." Now this was based on the fact that she was manager, BUT she was never officially made manager. There was no paper work stating this. No raise. No other employees knew she was the manager. The co-worker that was with my wife was NOT fired and did the exact same thing. I find this very unfair. Either my wife should get her unemployment or the other worker should have been fired also. With our second child, it is going to be very, very hard to make ends meet. We've already had to use a credit card check to pay a house payment and find the whole situation very unfair.
My wife got back from a six week maternity leave, and the manager called her in and told her that he'd like her to be the manager of the company. A couple of days later a co-worker complained that she thought she was getting less than a different co-worker so the two looked at the pay books. The boss somehow found out about it and asked them individually. After three times the co-worker finally admitted to looking at the payroll. He then asked my wife three times, and she denied it all three times. That night she couldn't take the guilt and called him and admitted to her mistake. The next day he told her she should resign because of what happened. She said that she didn't think that what she did deserved her to resign. He asked again, and once again she refused to resign. She said, "If you want me to leave you know what you have to do", so he fired her. She then (a week or so later applied for unemployment). A week after that she found out her boss was keeping her from obtaining unemployment because she "was discharged due to a work-related breach of duty." Now this was based on the fact that she was manager, BUT she was never officially made manager. There was no paper work stating this. No raise. No other employees knew she was the manager. The co-worker that was with my wife was NOT fired and did the exact same thing. I find this very unfair. Either my wife should get her unemployment or the other worker should have been fired also. With our second child, it is going to be very, very hard to make ends meet. We've already had to use a credit card check to pay a house payment and find the whole situation very unfair.
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