Fight Unfounded Unemployment Claims

Many organizations find themselves facing increasing claims from employees for unemployment insurance. Unfortunately, many of these claims may be unfounded, coming from employees who are turning down opportunities to work while trying to collect unemployment. Without the data to prove it, organizations are often forced to pay these unmerited claims.

Aesop provides critical data, such as when work was offered to employees and how they responded, which you can present to the unemployment office in order to overturn the claim at the initial determination - eliminating the need to even go to court.

The Data:

History of job offers made by your organization
Tracking of employee responses to each offer
Reports of employee activity within Aesop
Employee settings within Aesop

The Benefit:

Prove that you offered work to the employee
Show if the employee turned down or ignored work opportunities
Demonstrate if the employee did not proactively look for work
See if the employee limited available times for work or was overly selective

Barbara Fleisher, from North Plainfield School District in NJ, described the process they use through Aesop to provide relevant data to the unemployment company that represents their cases.

"Prior to using Aesop we would fight unfounded unemployment claims the best we could, using the information that we had available. Sometimes that information was quite limited. Aesop provides us with reports such as the employee's work history, the call logs, their log-in times, so that we compare all of those items and see where the employee has accepted or rejected jobs or declined jobs for a period of time, or blocked out dates when they're not available.

"When we receive a claim, we provide Aesop reports to either Unemployment or to the company that represents us. They, in turn, have apparently been able to use this information so that at this point we have not had to go to court to fight any claims."

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Many professionals spend hours manually creating schedules in Excel or even on paper. This process often requires trying to pull in information from a variety of sources, with no easy way to ensure consistency of information and visibility across multiple departments.

Aesop gives you an easy-to-use web portal that not only makes creating the schedule easy, but provides personnel with real-time access to crucial data.

Online schedule creation & management

No more paper or Excel-based schedules - you can easily drag and drop fields online to schedule your permanent employees and even leave gaps in the schedule for Aesop to automatically fill (learn more about automated shift fulfillment).

Last-minute adjustments to the schedule

Rather than continually updating an Excel file or scrambling to cover last-minute shifts, Aesop lets you quickly make changes online. You can assign a specific employee to the new shift or let Aesop fill the position for you.

Visibility across departments

Without a web-based system, personnel often struggle with multiple, inconsistent versions of the schedule circulating and difficulty communicating across departments. By giving your organization one, centralized database, Aesop ensures that everyone you want to has real-time access to the current schedule.

Tracking of certifications & skills

Matching employee certifications and skills to the proper positions is crucial to efficiency at your organization. Rather than guessing or having to check multiple sources, Aesop lets you keep all this data in one place, making it easy to get the best person for each shift (learn more about employee management).

Automated shift fulfilment truly sets Aesop apart. Shift fulfillment gives you the ability to create orders for open shifts or to leave gaps in your schedule, release those shifts to Aesop, and then stand back and let Aesop intelligently fill those shifts for you.

Based on skills and preferences you set up, Aesop automatically contacts qualified employees online, over the phone and through text messaging. Your employees can also proactively search for and accept jobs online and over the phone, helping you achieve higher fill rates faster. Aesop will utilize employees in your own pool first, only contacting your outside agencies if necessary and saving you agency costs and increasing consistency of labor.

With Aesop, you can have as much or as little control over the scheduling process as you want. Aesop is designed to be flexible, working the way you want it to and adapting to your existing methods through customizable business rules. With Aesop, employees enjoy control of their own availability and manager regain time for more critical projects.

One of your greatest assets - and greatest costs - is your workforce. Aesop helps you manage some of the largest labor costs that you face:

OVERTIME: enforce hourly limits to dramatically reduce overtime costs
COMPLIANCE: ensure compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws
UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS: acquire the data to refute unfounded claims - learn more
AGENCY USAGE: utilize the employees in your own pool first, reducing agency costs

Not only is Aesop beneficial for managing labor costs, but it is also great for your employees, too - resulting in higher employee satisfaction and retention.

SELF-SERVICE: empower employees to actively manage their work schedule and preferences

SKILL MATCHING: match employees to the positions they fit best

FATIGUE MANAGEMENT: ensure employee safety by enforcing minimum break times

SCHEDULE EQUITY: promote fairness in the scheduling process and eliminate perceptions of favoritism

In today's constantly changing business environment, companies must find ways to do more with less. Automating your rostering frees time to focus on strategic initiatives and improves employee morale and productivity.

Web-Based Rostering

Save hours spent creating rosters in Excel or on paper

Set up templates for easy roster creation

Keep up to date with roster changes through real-time data

Save time tracking certifications and skills

Automated Shift Fulfilment

Save hours spent calling and scheduling employees

Quickly create orders and let Aesop fill them for you

Let employees proactively search for and accept jobs online or over the phone

The Data:

History of job offers made by your organization
Tracking of employee responses to each offer
Reports of employee activity within Aesop
Employee settings within Aesop

The Benefit:

Prove that you offered work to the employee
Show if the employee turned down or ignored work opportunities
Demonstrate if the employee did not proactively look for work
See if the employee limited available times for work or was overly selective

Barbara Fleisher, from North Plainfield School District in NJ, described the process they use through Aesop to provide relevant data to the unemployment company that represents their cases.

Click Here for "Unemployment Claims" Resources

Or return to Employee Management

Fight Unfounded Unemployment Claims

WEB-BASED SCHEDULING: ELIMINATE MANUAL PROCESSES

AUTOMATED SHIFT FULFILLMENT: LET AESOP FILL THE GAPS

EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT: CONTROL LABOR COSTS

TIME SAVINGS: OPTIMIZE YOUR RESOURCES

Fight Unfounded Unemployment Claims