Rising Hegemon
I know society comes up with a million stereotypical reasons to hate lawyers (and speaking as a lawyer I will received 333,333 reasons before taxes). But really it's the mix of the law and the chance to make a buck off the misery of others that really takes it.
Talx, which emerged from obscurity over the last eight years, says it handles more than 30 percent of the nation’s requests for jobless benefits. Pledging to save employers money in part by contesting claims, Talx helps them decide which applications to resist and how to mount effective appeals.
Across the country the standard for obtaining unemployment is essentially the same - a terminated employee is entitled to unemployment insurance benefits unless they either quit their job or engaged in serious misconduct.
But, if benefits are rewarded an employer has to pay more unemployment insurance tax.
Enter Talx, making money by encouraging employers to be jackasses and increase misery, because it may, 'just may' save more in taxes than it costs to pay Talx.
“Talx often files appeals regardless of merits,” said Jonathan P. Baird, a lawyer at New Hampshire Legal Assistance. “It’s sort of a war of attrition. If you appeal a certain percentage of cases, there are going to be those workers who give up.”
Kicking a person when they're down -- for fun and profit.
(pic from here)
[Cross-posted in Firedoglake]
3 comments:
As a lawyer friend would say, these are the sort of lawyers that make it bad for the remaining good ten percent. :)
how the rich win that class warfare. keep as many dollars as they can.
Don't overlook the millions it costs the taxpayers to hear the thousands of nuisance appeals made by these parasites.
The cheap-labor southern Republican mentality at its purest.
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