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Union-Tribune fights unemployment claims
What the UT is doing is nasty. I've been laid off a couple of times and my father, who worked in the steel industry, was laid off a lot! It's never pretty even if given what the employer labels "a choice"! You are most often escorted out the door like a criminal. And as far as the Employment Development Department (EDD) goes, this government agency makes it one of the most demeaning experiences you'll ever go through. The EDD schedules appointments to which you have to arrive early but they make you sit there for an hour or more and you must sit there because if they call you and you don't respond, then you just broke the covenant and there go your benefits! So don't even try to schedule a job interview the same day you have to go to EDD. And good luck trying to have a 2-way conversation with the EDD clerk, they don't listen. I found out that the employer is always right and the unemployed is always wrong. Though I did win my appeal in the first instance, when I got laid off the second time I used my own resources (used all of my savings) until I got a new job rather than go through that disgusting experience again. Unfortunately, not everyone has the means and next time I may not either.— April 16, 2008 1:42 p.m.