Factoids on Unemployment - poodlepassion

Some of you may know some or all of this about unemployment from the "employer's" perspective but here goes.  I just spoke to my brother who is the CEO of his very successful business, with only a handful of employees, but he is looking on netting over 1 mil. next year (!) 

Anyway, he lives and works in California.  He told me that if someone applies for disability, the state contacts him to hear his point-of-view.  They tell him why the employee has filed, and he has a chance to refute it.  He says he always keeps a paper trail with problem employees.  Two employees in the past applied for unemployment but didn't get it.  My brother won both times on the grounds that they were consistently late for work, and that after a couple of notices that they failed to do specific things, and did not change after the notices.  He was obviously in the right to let them go because they didn't fulfill their original contracts, which they signed.  He was told by the disability office that statistically even if an employee leaves, the court usually decides on the side of the employee, not the employer.  He also told me that he pays taxes to the Disability office at a certain rate, but that rate does go up if the court sides with even one employee.  Imagine what Medquist's unemployment tax rate must be.

Just keep a paper trail, folks, good or bad. 

Does anyone out there have any original contracts with Medquist describing our obligations?  Anyone have a copy of a contract or e-mail updating our acceptance of the 40% decrease in salaries from our original ASR rate?  I can't find any, but I do remember signing something that basically says the MT must live up to all our obligations, yet they had no responsibilities toward us.