My employer terminated me in January and provided a letter of termination with specific reasons for firing me.

The reasons were ridiculous. They alleged that my supervisor had asked me not to do something and I did it anyway. However, what my supervisor allegedly asked me not to do was part and parcel of my job, and not doing so was a violation of state and federal law - so if she did ask me to do it, she asked me to do something that was illegal and would risk my losing my professional license.

I disagreed with their reasons and filed an appeal with the NLRB and applied for unemployment. Despite the fact that my employer attempted to prevent me from obtaining unemployment benefits, benefits were approved.

Now, in late March, I received a letter from unemployment stating that they are appealing the decision.

Did they miss the deadline? They fired me on January 29th and now it's the last week of March - isn't there a 30 day deadline or something?

Also, at the appeal, will the focus remain on the termination letter and the reasons they gave for firing me in the letter - or will they be able to make up a bunch of bs and/or other alleged reasons for firing me? (They have a history of lying in unemployment appeals with previous employees.)

In the letter they say why they fired me. I have no problem defending my actions in that regard. If they come up with surprise allegations or lies, I can't really defend against it - it's like proving you didn't do something that was never done.

:eek:

Thanks.

The unemployment office is not in the habit of allowing appeals if they do not meet the qualifications to do so. If the UI office is allowing the appeal, then either they did not miss any deadlines or the reason the employer offered for missing the deadline was accepted by the UI office. Otherwise the UI office would have declined to allow the appeal.

The ajudicator saw through my employer's BS like it was glass. They found NO evidence of misconduct on my part.

The ajudicator saw through my employer's BS like it is was glass. They found NO evidence of misconduct on my part.

Are you saying that you are the OP, but you have a different userID, or are you talking about something that the rest of us know nothing about - and decided to talk about this subject on another person's thread, and a thread that is almost 1 year old?

Same person, new ID as I'd forgotten my old password and email. Came across my old post and wanted to let people know not to fear unemployment appeals when they are in the right.