Posted on 04/04/2020 8:30:24 PM PDT by Quick Shot
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In my case pay ceased after 7 years as an engineer, and was notified that medical insurance was ending 4-30.
Does anyone have input as this term furloughed does not mean anything and there appears to be no contractual meaning what so ever.
I asked the employer to put the terms of the furlough on paper. Received nothing. Would love input.
Generally a furlough is a temporary lay off.
Your employer may be using the term differently, but I think when the federal government “furloughs” civil servants it means they stay home, and the pay checks stop, and when the political/budget situation gets better, they come back to their old jobs and the pay checks start up again.
Of course, civil servants also receive all of the back pay as well, so their furlough is really a paid vacation. In the real world, I would expect it to be (at best) an unpaid vacation.
I hope your employer give you information and I hope you can go back to your old job soon.
Not terminated for cause, eligible for rehire immediately once stay orders lifted. Appears to be different from laid off, as those jobs may not come back.
Please note, I am not an attorney or HR specialist, so it would be best to talk to your HR department to confirm.
COBRA is your friend. It’s not cheap, but probably has a low deductible. On the health care exchanges, it is more expensive then COBRA and the deductible is $7000. It sucks that you lost your job, I’ve been there done that. Buck-up, you’ll recover.
Furlouged, as I understand it, means the company intends to bring you back when times get better. It also means, like the term laid-off which means the company is not intending to bring you back but did not fire you, that you are eligible for state unemployment benefits.
If the company fired you, you are not eligible for unemployment benefits from a state.
Just my minimal understanding of the terms.
JoMa
I’m furloughed. At my company it means I’m eligible for unemployment and my job is safe until things get better and I can return to work.
Generally, but there does not look to be any real contractual meaning to the term. Now this is the private sector, not the government. In now hindsight appears to be a convenient way of saying laid off. nothing more nothing less.
Disney just did the same to many, but did not pull medical. Mine pulled all benefits,
That is not a given. Depends on the government organization.
In the case of my wife’s employer it’s a temporary reduction in force. Not quite laid off because they are keeping all of their benefits.
They are eligible for unemployment and the $600.
For the most part, they will be called back.
Since she works at a hospital “almost” maxed out...no one is really complaining.
It means file for unemployment, contact mortgage company for program to defer payments, etc.
Thanks. I’m good at what I do. Will come out of this better, the process sucks though in this situation. Old job hired and fired many. This just seams bizarre process wise, and convenient rhetoric. Really the term Furlough has no defined meaning, all is implied.
I was furloughed too. I need to apply for unemployment which I never had to do before! I may also just look for another job as well. If I find a decent job in the mean-time before my company ends the furlough then I’m resigning.
It’s an interesting term that means nothing as what I found out.
It usually means you will be kept on a call-back list which your employer may or may not use.
Furloughed means you are eligible for immediate rehire and benefits reinstated.
Fired generally means not eligible for rehire.
COBRA simply allows you to continue on your employer's health care plan for a predetermined length which can expand. Deductibles do not change because it is still your employer's insurance plan. What does change is you are now effectively paying your old premium PLUS the premium your employer was paying for you, often doubling or tripling your monthly payout at exactly the time you can't afford to pay it.
COBRA is like the snake. If you don't understand it and don't set money aside to pay for it, it will bite and bite hard.
You are eligible for unemployment insurance. I would sign up as soon as possible. If your company ends up paying you for the time you were furloughed, you will have to repay any unemployment you received.
Like others have said, I'm not an attorney but am just commenting on what I've seen.
In the railroad business, furlough means temporarily out of work with no pay. After one-year, they don’t call you back. The position is open for hiring another person. Under one-year, they’ll call back those furloughed, as needed, according to seniority...top to bottom.
Furlough = lay off workers TEMPORARILY.
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