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With powerful, clearly written advice on how to control and to reduce dramatically unemployment insurance compensation taxes, here is an authoritative, useful guide to the UIC system. The authors draw upon their extensive experience to detail intricacies and pitfalls in the UIC system; they provide principles and strategies to help employers avoid them. With information on documenting and warning employees in cases where discharge may be imminent, proper use of the information in this book can help protect a company against unwarranted UIC tax charges. The authors also guide employers through the appeals process, demonstrating how to prepare, organize, and present a UIC case. Also included are myths and misconceptions about the UIC system, a look inside a local UIC office, and in-depth examination of how to deal with the UIC decision process, from the local office to the highest level of administrative appeal.
This guide is an indispensible tool for anyone involved in hiring, discharging, or dealing with unemployment issues. Complete with sample forms and letters, a sample script of a typical UIC hearing, and comprehensive glossary, Controlling Unemployment Insurance Costs is a unique resource for employers in the private sector, and can also be used effectively by federal, state, and local government agencies. Human resource managers in universities and schools, non-profit organizations, and attorneys and paralegals will also find it valuable.
List of contents
Introduction: A Guide to the Intricacies of the Unemployment Insurance System
Understanding the Unemployment Insurance Compensation Program
Common Myths and Misconceptions about Unemployment Insurance
Documenting and Warnings
Discharging an Employee
Quits and Layoffs
The UIC Local-Office Claims Process
After the First-Level Decision
Preparing for the Appeals Hearing
The Day of the Appeals Hearing
The First-Level Appeals Hearing
Beyond the Appeals Hearing
Appendix A: Sample Warning Forms and Other Useful Forms
Appendix B: Important Checklists
Appendix C: Sample Forms Used during the Claims and Appeals Process
Appendix D: Sample Letters
Appendix E: Sample Script
Appendix F: Listing of UIC Benefits by Jurisdiction
Appendix G: Drug Testing--What Every Employer Should Know
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author
GABE DONNADIEU represents employers in unemployment insurance compensation matters. Before establishing his own firm he was a claims examiner, supervisor, investigator, and auditor for the Arizona Unemployment Insurance Program.
A. SCHULER, an attorney, served as an administrative law judge for unemployment hearings, and has also owned and operated a manufacturing company. He is currently a senior defense attorney for the Arizona State Compensation Fund.
