copperbarrow
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Ohio
Hello, and thanks in advance for any comments.
I returned home yesterday after a rather bewildering meeting with the head of the adult education program who employs me. I have worked there since about 2001. I sign a contract every summer stating I am a casual part time employee. I received a letter last spring stating I was terminated when the present contract expired in June. I was verbally assured by my coordinator that I would be rehired when the program started back in August. I applied for unemployment benefits and was granted 190.00 a week, which I recieved for 9 weeks. I was rehired in August and have been working since.
Well, I received a request to schedule a mystery meeting and I did right away. The program director explained very nicely that this is a non-profit organization. After last years school term finished, the class I teach had about $10,000 left which would have been spent for other needed items.
She said my unemployment benefits to me alone, ate up $4900 of that, almost half. I was getting pretty uneasy at this point and told her I didn't remember making that amount, but she said I did.
She said she couldn't understand why, when I was hired as a casual part-time teacher, that I applied for benefits in the first place. She said if all 50 employees who received that same termination letter had applied for unemployment, that the school would have had to close down.
I told her I felt terribly embarrassed. I also told her that although my status is casual part-time, it is very important to me, my job is almost my life, and that I feel I'm a good employee, I only called off once when my mom died, I am never late and I come in extra when needed. (I also do all my grading and classroom prep on my own time, but whatever)
I sort of had trouble hearing what she said after that. Maybe it was that the next termination letter that everyone receives will be worded in such a way that unemployment isn't going to be granted? Anyway, I'm just bewildered by this all.
And by the way, I looked at my unemployment records and I would have been eligible for $4900, and received about $15-1600.
Thanks
Hello, and thanks in advance for any comments.
I returned home yesterday after a rather bewildering meeting with the head of the adult education program who employs me. I have worked there since about 2001. I sign a contract every summer stating I am a casual part time employee. I received a letter last spring stating I was terminated when the present contract expired in June. I was verbally assured by my coordinator that I would be rehired when the program started back in August. I applied for unemployment benefits and was granted 190.00 a week, which I recieved for 9 weeks. I was rehired in August and have been working since.
Well, I received a request to schedule a mystery meeting and I did right away. The program director explained very nicely that this is a non-profit organization. After last years school term finished, the class I teach had about $10,000 left which would have been spent for other needed items.
She said my unemployment benefits to me alone, ate up $4900 of that, almost half. I was getting pretty uneasy at this point and told her I didn't remember making that amount, but she said I did.
She said she couldn't understand why, when I was hired as a casual part-time teacher, that I applied for benefits in the first place. She said if all 50 employees who received that same termination letter had applied for unemployment, that the school would have had to close down.
I told her I felt terribly embarrassed. I also told her that although my status is casual part-time, it is very important to me, my job is almost my life, and that I feel I'm a good employee, I only called off once when my mom died, I am never late and I come in extra when needed. (I also do all my grading and classroom prep on my own time, but whatever)
I sort of had trouble hearing what she said after that. Maybe it was that the next termination letter that everyone receives will be worded in such a way that unemployment isn't going to be granted? Anyway, I'm just bewildered by this all.
And by the way, I looked at my unemployment records and I would have been eligible for $4900, and received about $15-1600.
Thanks
