If your business winds up with a lot of unemployment claims, your unemployment insurance rates are guaranteed to go up. Contesting unemployment claims?and avoiding them altogether?requires that a business or company make an effort to train employees well in addition to having clear documentation regarding any employee misconduct. If a business contests an unemployment claim, the burden of proving just cause for firing the employee falls on the business. Even if the employee you fired cursed out customers, stole from you and set your business on fire, if you don’t have any documented proof of what this person did to cause her firing, you won’t be able to prove your case…
