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    Default Fake Unemployment Claim

    I'm an employer in California and laid off an employee. Another employee (her friend) did not return to work the next day and is saying I laid her off, also. I provided proof of the ongoing position, but they ruled in her favor. How do I protect my word against hers in California?

    She's also gone to the labor board for vacation pay that would be earned on an anniversary date in the future. When I go the hearing and take the employee manual with the rules and copies of her paystubs showing she had 0 hours available, will that be enough?

    Who can I go to with the details? There are other specific things that I think are relevant, if this info isn't enough. The State isn't on the employers side, who is?

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    Default Re: Fake Unemployment Claim

    just a thought

    this is far from any official action or response but it would seem that if you sent the person a certified letter stating (with cc to the UI division in California) informing her she does in fact still have a job with you but expect her to return to work immediately lest she will be fired for abandonment, it would curtail any UI claim she had, if she even had one.

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    Default Re: Fake Unemployment Claim

    Thanks for the thought. She's alleging I fired her on the 8th and filed for UI on the 8th. Her hours were flexible so I didn't think anything of it until the 11th. I left her a message and she didn't respond and on the 14th of received the UI claim. Even though I provided proof of paying someone else to do her job for the same pay and hours, they ruled in her favor. Since she previously told me if her friend didn't work here, she wouldn't either, I'm not surprised she's gone. I just thought if she quit, I'd be covered. I never thought of her lying and saying I fired her when I didn't.

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