Bounced Payroll Checks

[Melinda Davies]

Georgia Unemployement Laws:

My husband went to work for a new employer October 2005. In November his payroll check started bouncing. Our bank now refuses to take his payroll checks. Of course he needs a new job so he went to the unemployment office to see if he can draw unemployement while hunting for a new job. They will not tell him one way or another. They said you have to quit, file a claim and wait and see. We need to know what we need to prove what is going on. We have a letter from the bank stating they will not take any more ckecks from them. Now he has to take the check and go their bank and cash it. Sometimes he may go three times before he can cash it. (The bank is 14 miles from his work and 26 miles from our house).

What information should we get before he quits his job to help him draw unemployement while hunting a job?

 

[cbg]

I don't mean this rudely, Melinda, but if the unemployment office can't tell you what proof you need, what makes you think we can?

It is next to impossible to collect unemployment if you quit. I understand that situation you are in but your husband is much better off stepping up the process of looking for a new job because no matter what proof you provide, there is NO guarantee that he will get unemployment if he quits, even for this reason. You could have a notarized, signed statement from the employer admitting that the payroll checks had been bouncing and that STILL would not guarantee unemployment if he quits.

 

[weenor]

Call the Georgia department of labor and report this...