Layoffs meet corruption for new corporate trick

February 15, 11:31 AMDC Corporate Ethics ExaminerJim Cunningham

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Eight years of overtly pro-business Bush Administration policy and coddling has recently reached a climax before it’s, hopefully, decline under the Obama Administration.

It seems they’re going to get their last licks in while they can.

The latest?

Blocking unemployment benefits.
 

A big corporation like that. . . . It was hard enough to be terminated," he said. "But for them to try to take away the unemployment benefits -- I just thought that was heartless."

It’s, apparently, not enough, now, to lay off employees. Now, employers often fight to keep people from receiving unemployment benefits, sometimes going as far as making up reasons for letting someone go, so it looks like something other than a layoff.

A former assistant manager at Ri Ra, an Irish Bar in Bethesda, fended off complaints that, among other things, he'd failed to greet guests at the door and one time poured a beer for himself after hours."

We have just entered the era of the STEALTH LAYOFF, the layoff which is disguised as a performance-based firing, so employers can avoid the costs of unemployment insurance.

To avoid this, employees should keep good records of their performance reviews and correspondence with their managers to avoid this new tactic.