{"id":515191,"date":"2010-04-05T04:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76778"},"modified":"2010-04-05T04:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:30:37","slug":"a-small-petty-place-reserved-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/515191","title":{"rendered":"A Small, Petty, Place reserved in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Talx, which emerged from obscurity over the last eight years, says it handles more than 30 percent of the nation\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But, if benefits are rewarded an employer has to pay more unemployment insurance tax.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cTalx often files appeals regardless of merits,\u201d said Jonathan P. Baird, a lawyer at New Hampshire Legal Assistance. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of a war of attrition. If you appeal a certain percentage of cases, there are going to be those workers who give up.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kicking a person when their down — for fun and profit. <\/p>\n

(pic from here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}