Ok here is the federal law. If you are suffering from harassment or conditions that make your work environment intolerable based on a protected class, you have the right to resign and be heard concerning unemployment. 1) you must have a definite claim of harassment based on religion sex gender age or some other protected class (mine was gender and sex harassment). 2) check to make sure they are following all promotion policies, this is also a valid reason to claim a hostile work environment age discrimination and or racial/gender discrimination) if they violated a policy to keep you from being promoted. 4) DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. 5) you MUST resign and state a hostile workplace as the reason and show proof.
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I agree with the original post. You can win without an attorney. I was set up but was smart enough to win the appeal after I quit due to hostile work environment, and I did not make any claims of harassment based on religion, sex etc. I just simply and showed in detail a hostile work environment. If you lay out your case in "detail" and I mean detail, you have a good chance of success. The managers were too stupid to realize that I had a smoking gun. So as I sit and watch the demise of cci, I can understand why. I feel for the good employees who tried to do the right thing in spite of management. I've watched this company for a number of years now, and I knew they would eventually fail based on their lack of ethics, it was only a matter of time.
LadyM, did you work at a CCI school? What were your exact circumstances?
You are better off quitting and enrolling in a CCI school for the stipend . . .
What hostile work environment? This is a simple case of a company going out of business. Unemployment will be aware that people quitting from CCI are going to try this. If it works, it might take a year.
Failing students have a higher chance of getting their loans forgiven have a better chance of receiving unemployment.
And realize this almost NEVER works. CCI has to pay unemployment benefits and they gots no $$ to give. They might put a highly paid person to fight it. I have a friend with an actual case for quitting (not CCI, another company) and despite all of her documentation, she lost. Do not take advice about quitting from people on your board. Ask your creepy cousin Lenny first. If you quit, there's a chance others will keep their jobs. They are inciting people to quit. Plus, let's face it, the likelihood you can prove any of this is tiny.
Do NOT go this route if you live in Florida! Politicians send open letters to corporations bragging about the low unemployment approval rate here. This varies greatly by state!
Yep reported it via their own HR reporting system and was told nothing could be done for a period of over a year... They didn't even bother to try and fight my claim when I resigned 3 months later, just handed me the money.
An attorney will ask if you reported the discrimination to HR. if you haven't this could weaken your case.
This can be very difficult to prove unless you document everything. it helps if you have a doctor and psychologist/psychiatrist to verify the about of stress and anxiety the hostility caused. It may be easier to go on LOA than to fight a claim for unemployment.
Almost never works. Consult with and hire an attorney first.