Ryan......Question for you!

[HumorMe]

I had an ex-employee call me yesterday and ask me for a job. Since hard working employees who do it the way you want are hard to come by, I told him I might find something for him to do. I fired him right before Christmas last year because of his failure to come to work after payday. Anyway, I found some things for him to do and I was talking to him about where he had been and what he had been doing.

He told me that he had been in and out of jail for non-support (child). I asked him how long he would have to stay when they locked him up and he said 45 days.

What is the purpose of locking somebody up who obviously is hard working but has a hard time personally making ends meet because of child support? When he does get locked up, he loses his job. When he worked for me, he always paid it and therefore stayed out of jail.

Why can't they garnish his wages and avoid jail time and the paper work?

It seems unproductive to lock somebody up these days because of the slow job market. He is hard working and like I said, he always did things right but just had a hard time remembering to come to work after he got paid. I warned him on numerous ocassions and wrote him up several times but he still did not respond the way he should have.

I don't know the laws when it comes to child support or the legal thinking surrounding locking somebody up. Grant it, I know these things are wrong but I just don't understand the law in the above circumstances.

 

[HumorMe]

I fired him because he would not show up for work for 2 to 3 days after payday. He has a little problem with the bottle and when he would get paid he would go on 2 and 3 day binges of drinking. He did pay his child support when he did get paid from me. It was only after I fired him after his eighth offense of not coming to work after payday that he started getting in trouble.
He filed for unemployment benefits and even though I had all the documentations showing where I had verbally warned him and written warnings signed by him( I made him sign them showing that he understood what will happen if it happened again) he was still able to draw unemployment but that's another thread! It burned me up that he was able to collect but I could have appealed it but I just let it ride.

 

[HumorMe]

After the Employment Security Commission notified me that he had filed for unemployment, I submitted all of my records to them. They called me a few times and discussed this case with me and several weeks later a hearing was held to determine if he should get unemployment. I was informed that I didn't have to attend this hearing because I had submitted the necessary paperwork and documentations needed to determine this. It was up to the hearing officer to make the decision as to what he was entitled to. He was penalized for 13 weeks and the amount he was entitled to draw was reduced I think 13 times (whatever the hell that means).

I personally feel that he should not have been entitled to anything under current laws governing this type of situation but it was the discretion of the officer in charge which I didn't agree with. I could have appealed it but by this time, it was getting to be a hassle and my company's unemployment rate was not affected because he was not drawing off of my company's unemployment account but the State's account.

I'm not taking up for this guy but he was an excellent employee when he was at work. It was when he didn't show up for work (when he had no excuse) that made me stew!

Somebody once told me something about employees and it still holds true to this day.......You can either put with all the shit from your employees or you can fire them and put up with somebody's elses. Everybody has baggage....it's your choice whether or not you want to open it.

 

[HumorMe]

Bump for Ryan

 

[RyanH]

Humorme---

Check your pm tomorrow. I sent you a pm earlier, and checked the status afterwards and it didn't send.

I'll rewrite and send again tomorrow.

Ryan.

 

[HumorMe]

Humorme---

Check your pm tomorrow. I sent you a pm earlier, and checked the status afterwards and it didn't send.

I'll rewrite and send again tomorrow.

Ryan.

Thanks Ryan....at least now I know that you were able to see this post so I don't have to bump it anymore.

I'll check it tomorrow! Thanks!