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That's how it's here as well. We provide a letter showing the employee was furloughed (saying laid off is seen differently). When we are ready for them to return, LWC is sent a copy of the letter informing the employee it's time to return. If they refused, it's seen as a resignation.
We've only terminated one person throughout all of this and the person isn't likely to qualify since we're claiming it was for misconduct and have evidence of it.
I don't know how the return thing is supposed to work. My company has about 2,000 employees locally and about 1,980 of us were furloughed. We used to have 12 people in HR and now we have 2. The way it seems to work is the departments are given a budget to spend on salary, they informally work out who is coming back, and submit those names to HR. So I don’t think HR necessarily knows about everyone who says no or not now. And like I said HR is severely understaffed since they are at non-revenue generating department. So the official return offer paperwork I was supposed to sign in May...actually got to me two weeks ago. I had to backdate it.