Fraud - “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain”, from Google
They are lying about scheduling him and lying to him that he is not essentially fired. Apparently according to one comment their are benefits to having someone on payroll while not paying them as it shows you have good employee retention which the government pays you for. From that same comment, the company may be trying to avoid paying out a clause in the contract where if they fire you they owe you some form of unemployment versus if you quit they owe you no unemployment. The fraud is that they promise the benefits of scheduling and giving you hours and pay and keep telling him that, but instead they lie and don’t do that while gaining the benefits of keeping him on payroll.
The comment I’m referring to:
"It’s so that they don’t have to pay out for unemployment. Instead of letting you off or firing you, they just don’t schedule you and that forces you to quit and they don’t have to pay out for unemployment…
And on top of it many companies are given government subsidies to them for you appearing on payroll for “employee retention”. Make sure you get yourself taken off of payroll!!! Could screw you over at tax time if they haven’t.
Absolutely should be an illegal practice." - kittenspaint
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