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"."
