Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if I don't attend the hearing?
If you do not attend the hearing and you are
the appealing party, your appeal will be dismissed. If you do not
appear and you are the non-appealing party, the hearing will continue
without you and facts favorable for you may not be considered. Your
failure to appear may result in a denial of all further rights of
appeal.
You must make every effort to attend the
hearing. If you have a very serious conflict and cannot make it, let
us know immediately. Only if you have a committment which is both very
important and absolutely cannot be changed should you request a
postponement. Generally, hearings will not be postponed for
personal reasons, vacations, plant shut downs, or business
appointments. Only written confirmation from the Division of
Administrative Hearings can postpone a scheduled hearing.
If you need to postpone a hearing, you need to
demonstrate that you have good cause for doing so. Good cause is
defined in Chapter 1, Section 1 (T) of the Unemployment Insurance
Commission Regulations:
"
Good Cause. For the purposes of the Employment Security
Law and regulations, the Commission determines that
"good cause" shall be when the unemployed
individual himself is ill, or when illness of the
unemployed individual's spouse or children, or parents,
or stepparents, brothers or sisters, or relatives who
have been acting in the capacity of a parent of either
the claimant or spouse, require his or her presence; or
he or she is in attendance at a funeral of such
relative; or required by religious conviction to observe
a religious holiday; or required by law to perform
either a military or civil duty; or other cause of a
necessitous and compelling nature. Incarceration as a
result of a conviction for a felony or misdemeanor is
excluded from the definition of "good cause"
."
