Originally Posted by
unit monster
They pay a pre determined rate based on successful unemployment claims, the higher the ratio of claims to active employees the higher the unemployment insurance taxes they pay. So no, they don't pay directly, but unemployment taxes will increase.
Didn't they come out and say they will not dispute any unemployment claims? If the company plans to be around for any reasonable amount of time this makes zero business sense.
I guess they can always be bankrupted-and they wouldn’t need to dispute anything.
Still hard to figure why they would pay any kind of severance if they just plan to bankrupt or liquidate