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I am in TN, know a little about the way the labor laws work here. If you get a severance of any kind, consider yourself darn lucky and walk away gratefully. TN is one of the least employee friendly states in the union, right after TX. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that would legally give you any edge on which to hang your request for more severance. And they could very easily and legally take the whole thing off the table.
File for unemployment insurance benefits immediately, which in TN you can do even though you are receiving a severance, you do not have to wait until the two months are up. And there is currently in TN, even a poor chance you'll be able to get unemployment insurance. Remember our legislature right now? The one that is so right wing they want to impeach the governnor from their own party???
Well, they decided last session that in most termination cases, if the employer can remotely, even sort of think of saying the employee did something "not in the interests of the company" they will deny your unemployment claim on the first hearing anyway. Actual evidence of wrongdoing is not required any more. This is so we can help out all these "job creators" out there who are trickling down all this money into our coffers and creating all our jobs here. But do file. When you are terminated without a good misconduct reason, you should be able to get approved, it's just harder.
And many people in TN are so brainwashed by the radio shows constantly on the air here that they think unemployment insurance is welfare anyway and won't sign up for it, even though it is as legitimate as your social security retirement will be when you get to there, and is in no way a welfare program.
File for unemployment insurance benefits immediately, which in TN you can do even though you are receiving a severance, you do not have to wait until the two months are up. And there is currently in TN, even a poor chance you'll be able to get unemployment insurance. Remember our legislature right now? The one that is so right wing they want to impeach the governnor from their own party???
Well, they decided last session that in most termination cases, if the employer can remotely, even sort of think of saying the employee did something "not in the interests of the company" they will deny your unemployment claim on the first hearing anyway. Actual evidence of wrongdoing is not required any more. This is so we can help out all these "job creators" out there who are trickling down all this money into our coffers and creating all our jobs here. But do file. When you are terminated without a good misconduct reason, you should be able to get approved, it's just harder.
And many people in TN are so brainwashed by the radio shows constantly on the air here that they think unemployment insurance is welfare anyway and won't sign up for it, even though it is as legitimate as your social security retirement will be when you get to there, and is in no way a welfare program.