Triangle mandatory unpaid leaves/pay cuts

[livesintriangle]

Originally Posted by daveraleigh

Can't you claim unemployment? My company is doing the same thing...although you have to take one week off all at once.
NC holds that first week of unemployment 'pay' but after that (if we were to have to take another week off) unemployment would kick in.
In fact...my employer suggest going ahead and claiming in case there are layoffs down the road...that way you have that first week out of the way
Maybe it doesn't work with single days like you're describing, though.

I was going to try, but I read that NC doesn't allow it for this situation - maybe that information was incorrect, though. I'm going to check it out, thank you

[Francois]

Originally Posted by lovebrentwood

From my perspective, and from the perspective of many people I know, the Forbes, Yahoo, and other lists are mind boggling because they seem to be presenting a view of the Triangle that does not exist.

Several weeks ago, the mayor of Durham was interviewed by ABC News (national) because Durham came up high on a list of "great places to wait out the Recession." That implies that our economy may be healthier than most.

Yet the recent Kelly Services poll of employers in Raleigh and Durham indicated that employers aren't so encouraging.

NC still has the sixth highest unemployment rate in the nation.

I just don't understand how they (the media outlets) make their determinations.

Probably using outdated data--as you know, even a year ago, the picture was QUITE different.

[gotsomedata]

I agree with lovebrentwood and Francois; I firmly believe that that "they" are not deliberately mis-representing the numbers; "they" simply are not in possesion of the current employment statistics here. I also think it is critical to note that while an analytical person would have no trouble understanding that while one aspect of the economy in a given place could be doing well (like real estate prices), another aspect (like employment) might not be doing well, I am not at all sure the people who write this stuff for magazines have these capabilities.