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Do contracts - mean anything?

Posted: May 11, 2010

If you are hired as an employee (FT), signed a contract for straight typing at a certain amount of CPL, they make the change to ASR, your CPL is decreased, your paycheck is suffering, is there anything to do, aside from leaving?

Doubt it. Pay rates can change. Ask an attorney. - Probably free consult fee with attorney.

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You can probably check your state unemployment - laws. If you are making less you

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may be able to collect partial unemployment to make up the difference. Each state is different so you'd have to call and see the rules are.

Partial unemployment - RLee

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If you were hited for FT and your paycheck is suffering for whatever reason you may be eligible for partial unemployment. If you are eligile for $360 and you are taking home less than that they will compensate you the difference. Check into it - can be filed fairly easily via the Internet.

Yep...what I did with Superior Global and Siance - jm0405

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They won't pay full wages and/or give you work to allow you to earn at least $360? File for unemployment - the statse will supplement your income and contact your employer. They don't wish to pay unemployment? They will pay you themselves! They don't want to pay unemployment? They will give you work to edit/type.

SGS, BTW, will NOT pay unemployment. I filed partial unemployment on them in June of 2009 and they told the DETR office they will give me work, stop the payments. After that, I was lucky to have 5 reports a day. I saved some of their IMs, printed them, proving they ignored me when I asked for work...it is sitting on the Appeals desk in the DETR office fixin' to be reviewed any day now for back payments. Their rep lied throughout the phone meeting with the DETR looking at the IMs and emails. Expect a fight with this company.

Siance? Well...they have been contacted by DETR - no answer. They have been contacted and were given a deadline to pay me on May 6th by Labor Commission - no answer. This company is trying to run, but they can't hide.

Whatever company it is, you might end up with a fight - expect it. Just follow it to the end regardless. NOBODY WORKS FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!

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