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I was seeing my lawyer for other legal matters and asked him if he knew anything about labor law. He said a little. I told him how we are paid by production, which includes providing our own computers, work environments at home, reading and responding to company email and you know, every other little thing we have to do like searching for patients, etc., etc., etc., and now we are expected to log into FIESA and sign off on "errors." He said off the top of his head, we are "at will" employees and we can be fired for not doing what we are instructed to do, like checking FIESA. However, he said if you were fired for such, it would not preclude you from collecting unemployment. I said, well, how would I explain that to unemployment? He said you would just tell them you could not keep up with the job requirements. He is having someone else look into it who is more familiar with labor law. Keep you posted!