The Talx Corporation... 'Who Would Want This Job ???' - Jim Hightower

[WillyT]

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Yes, jobs are hard to come by these days, but don't despair, for here's a company that's hiring – if you can stomach the work.

It's the Talx Corporation, and what it does is to help major outfits (from AT&T to Walmart) prevent their fired employees from getting unemployment benefits. Sound like fun?

You see, when a corporation's former workers are denied jobless benefits, the corporation pays less in taxes to our nation's unemployment fund. However, denying benefits is a messy process, and it's not a plus for the corporate image. So – voila! – Talx comes in to do the dirty chore.

Talx has become notorious in state unemployment offices across the country, for it routinely flings tons of paper at the process in order to clog it and game it, thus denying or stalling benefits that laid-off people are due. Stalling a case is often enough, for many jobless folks don't have the resources or time to battle a deep-pocket opponent like Talx, so they give up.

Lying seems to be another Talx weapon. A recent New York Times report cites several examples, including the case of a mentally-disabled man fired from his job as a night janitor in a New Hampshire Walmart. Talx stalled for three months before the fellow could even get a hearing. The hearing officer granted benefits to the jobless janitor, but Talx appealed, claiming that Walmart had requested to testify by phone but was not allowed to. There was, however, no such request. Finally, the janitor won the appeal – but, thanks to the Talx long stall, he had no money for rent and lost his apartment. "That was a nightmare," he says of his experience.

Talx officials say the company improves the "efficiency" of the unemployment system. Actually, it doesn't – but worse, Talx strips human decency from the system.

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Link: http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7133

[msongs]

1. 3rd party intervention should be illegal - just the claimant and the ex-employer nt

[sandnsea]

2. They do it for workman's comp too

The employer hires a private insurance company who hires a processing company and they drag it out forever. There's really no one to go directly to because everyone just passes the buck, including the state agency because they don't have a lot of authority anymore either. And like in the OP, the worker can't even shame the company because they can just say it wasn't their fault, it was a mix-up elsewhere.

[Warpy]

3. Come the revolution, people who do that should be first against the wall

We can get to the overpaid executive class later.

[WillyT]

4. I'm With You...

:mad:

[snagglepuss]

5. What filthy effing scum. There are no words for the contempt I feel. nt