My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Louisiana
My former employer was taken into receivership by a state regulator and an insurance company was appointed as receiver by that state regulator.
The receiver then sold the "assets" of my former employer to a competing company in the same industry.
Although it was implied (verbally, in an all-[former] employee meeting) that the acquiring company would continue "normal" operations with the existing employees (at least until a full conversion was completed), no written offer nor any mention of compensation or potential severance pay was discussed.
I left the meeting and never returned to my former place of employment.
I consider that I was abandoned by my former employer and rejected the offer to work for the acquiring company. The acquiring company, however, reported to the state employment agency that I "resigned/quit" and that I "did not work as agreed".
There is no labor contract and I was an employee-at-will (at my former employer) under Louisiana's "right-to-work" laws.
Who is correct? I have sent an appeal to the state unemployment agency, but I haven't received a response. I haven't been able to find any legal precedent for either side, but I thought that "acquiring" human beings went out with the Emancipation Proclamation?

