Although the standard answer seems to be "Joe schmoe is (or is not) rehirable"..I think you can give more information without fear of reprisal **IF** you have your information documented.
We once had a gal that was abusing the system so I ended up keeping track of her every movement. It was full work day, hour lunch and leave at 5. She was to answer phones... sort of like ahem...a receptionist?
When her 'boss' left for what ever reason, she'd simply walk by my office and say "Dan's gone for the day so I'm leaving too"
(hmm... who's our receptionist now?)
Her "lunch" breaks ended up being 90 minutes, then 2 hours, then 4 hours if not the rest of the day.
Her paycheck of course, never reflected this absence.
I documented her activities for something like 3 months before I finally brought it up and confronted her.
She played the "crying opressed woman" theme on me but it wasn't flying.
Bottom line, she quit and by happenstance, moved away thereafter. Her new firm sent us a letter to confirm her employment and instead of answering the letter, I physically called them so I could speak to the guy (and I'll admit, have nothing in writing
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I told them of her abuses (and others I've not listed here)
In my business (securities, as in investments), you can be unemployed for 2 years and still keep your registrations. If you go unemployed for 2 years and 1 day, then you have to start from scratch & retake all the tests.
Prior to her coming to us, she'd been out for 1 year 11 months. She left us and it was 1 year 11 months before she joined this firm
I tried to tell this guy to LOOK at her history, along with what our experiences were and she was just abusing the system to keep her registrations. He would do himself AND the industry (self regulating??) a FAVOR by delaying her registration by several weeks and let her lapse.
Unfortunately, I think he had a quota to make on recruiting and hired her on the spot, which reset her 2 year clock.
She of course, is no longer there and continues to abuse the system.