You are correct my original post 1/2 vanished. The rest of the story is when we filled out our COBRA paperwork, we recieved infor to fill out for the COBRA subsidy that was made available through the last stimulus, for us the differnece of about 700/ month. However the employer, denied our eligibility, refused to give us any reason, so I requested a review by the DOL, now the employer is telling the DOL that my husband along with 14 others walked off the job in the middle of the day, which is an outright lie, the company he was working for lost alot of work to another company because they were behind schedule and therefore laid off nearly 100 people in a 2 week period. However because the employer refuses to provide us any documentation it's simply my husbands word against theirs. (In researching the issue I've found countless sights where lawyers are encouraging employers to routinely deny subsidy eligibility and hope former employees simply don't bother to request a review.) Well here is the question I wanted to get to, I've contacted HR department to ask for something to simply document my husband's last day of work and the woman very nervously told me she would have to see if she could get permission to release that info, she never returned my call, and when I called back she told me that her employer simply would not allow her to release that info. Isn't an employer required to file separation notices with the unemployment office, and if we qualify for unemployment, we easily qualify for the COBRA subsidy who's guildlines for involuntary separation are much more lenient than unemployment guidlines. So what is an employees rights to their own work records?
