This one is sort of complicated. The restaurant I have worked for almost a full year is rumored to be closing for not paying payroll tax. It is a very small business, I am one of about 8 people who work the front of the house.
Last year almost no one got paid for 9 nonconsecutive weeks, a condition that nearly everyone suffered, except for the managers, here and there. I have since been paid back nearly all of what I am owed. Currently I am still owed about 3 weeks of pay for weeks this month that I wasn't issued a check.
The GM has many personal problems, including alcoholism and a streak of compulsive or pathological lying. He has made numerous innappropriate sexual comments about the females who work there, including my current girlfriend and a girl I dated last year. The working conditions due to his activity, coupled with the lack of pay, are forcing me to end my employment there. I want to be eligible for unemployment, so I do not know if I should quit or 'make' them fire me.
There are many, many more examples of bad conditions there, including lying, suspected stealing, substance abuse while working, etc. I do not trust any of the people in charge and I have a somewhat paranoid but certainly justified suspicion that NOTHING is as it seems with these people.
I know that, through talking to a manager who on Monday will be in jail to serve a 6mo sentence for a DUI, the restaurant assumes I quit. I haven't indicated to anyone what my intentions are. They assume this base on the actions of my girlfriend. (Also a manager but she is a good one, honest)
I will be seeking legal advice early next week, and will explore the possibilities of a lawsuit, if there is enough to justify one.
Right now I'm only interested at my eligibility to collect unemployment, as I would like to be able to concentrate on finishing my (ironically) Labor Studies BA degree at Rutgers.
All of this is occurring in Mercer County, NJ
Last year almost no one got paid for 9 nonconsecutive weeks, a condition that nearly everyone suffered, except for the managers, here and there. I have since been paid back nearly all of what I am owed. Currently I am still owed about 3 weeks of pay for weeks this month that I wasn't issued a check.
The GM has many personal problems, including alcoholism and a streak of compulsive or pathological lying. He has made numerous innappropriate sexual comments about the females who work there, including my current girlfriend and a girl I dated last year. The working conditions due to his activity, coupled with the lack of pay, are forcing me to end my employment there. I want to be eligible for unemployment, so I do not know if I should quit or 'make' them fire me.
There are many, many more examples of bad conditions there, including lying, suspected stealing, substance abuse while working, etc. I do not trust any of the people in charge and I have a somewhat paranoid but certainly justified suspicion that NOTHING is as it seems with these people.
I know that, through talking to a manager who on Monday will be in jail to serve a 6mo sentence for a DUI, the restaurant assumes I quit. I haven't indicated to anyone what my intentions are. They assume this base on the actions of my girlfriend. (Also a manager but she is a good one, honest)
I will be seeking legal advice early next week, and will explore the possibilities of a lawsuit, if there is enough to justify one.
Right now I'm only interested at my eligibility to collect unemployment, as I would like to be able to concentrate on finishing my (ironically) Labor Studies BA degree at Rutgers.
All of this is occurring in Mercer County, NJ