After submitting your appeal, you are almost on the way to the hearing- a few things to remember….

After turning in your appeal of the unemployment decision, you will receive a letter/packet from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The first page of packet will give you the hearing information for Claimant and Employer. The information contains the date and time of the unemployment hearing. The claimant and employer have a choice to appear to the Hearing office location which is stated in the document, or can call the number given on the packet. The most important to remember when you get the hearing information packet is if you wish to present any evidence to the hearing officer pertaining to the termination- you must mail/fax those documents to both the officer and the claimant. If you do not, none of the documents you wish to use as evidence will be allowed if neither the claimant nor officer do not receive it.  Try to send the information a week before the scheduled hearing date so that the claimant and hearing officer have ample time to receive the documents.

Once you have sent the necessary documents, set a calendar reminder for the hearing, so you don’t forget. You’ve completed almost all the steps in the process, the next and final step is the appeal hearing.

Recent judgment confirming final arbitration award issued in Los Angeles County, becomes largest award on record.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court filed on May 28, 2009, a final judgment agreeing with the final arbitration award against a company in a wage and labor dispute with its former employee.  The employee was acting as the chief marketing officer for the company. The final arbitration award is calculated to be $4.1 billion. Yes, I said billion, that is a “b” and it is not a typo. Damages included unpaid salaries, commissions (including estimated commissions for up to 7 years after termination), stock, unreimbursed expenses, interest, and penalties. On top of this the company had punitive damages charged to them calculated as three times the damages. The defending company refused to participate in the arbitration hearing which obviously allowed such a large award. With no effort to defend itself, the company was found by the arbitrator to have been “engaged in a pattern of despicable conduct that constitutes oppression, fraud and malice”.

See Also

• Link to Judgement
  Case # BC353567, Paul Thomas Chester v. iFreedom Communications Inc; Timothy Ringgenberg