[j4yav]

Is the main reason they are motivated to blame performance so that they can avoid paying out disability (edit: unemployment) insurance?

[wbl]

You get UI even if fired unless it was for misconduct. Being bad at your job is not misconduct.

[j4yav]

Then what’s the point of taking a shot at someone barely out of training to say it was their fault?

[JustLurking2022]

Not admitting senior leaders screwed up the strategy and over-hired.

[gruez]

>disability insurance

I think you meant unemployment insurance?

[barbazoo]

If so, how would they achieve that. In Canada afaik you only pay EI while one’s employed. How would they have saved money with this?

[ryandamm]

At least in California, businesses pay rates that are partially determined by the number of UI claims the company has paid out. You get a letter-based score that has many different tiers.

Startups without a long history end up in the worst category be default, iirc.

[gruez]

random from google: https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/handling-unempl...

>Again, you are responsible for paying FUTA and SUTA tax for your employees. And when former employees file for unemployment benefits, you are (indirectly) the one footing the bill.

>Benefit payments are charged to your employer tax account, which results in increased state tax rates. The more unemployment claims the state approves, the more you contribute for unemployment taxes.