Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. Loses Appeals on Former Employees' Unemployment Insurance Claims.California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board Rules That the Company Cannot Disqualify To deprive of eligibility or render unfit; to disable or incapacitate. To be disqualified is to be stripped of legal capacity. A wife would be disqualified as a juror in her husband's trial for murder due to the nature of their relationship. Employees from Receiving Unemployment Benefits LOS ANGELES -- The California Unemployment Appeals Board has ruled against Applied DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :APDN) in its effort to disqualify three former employees from receiving unemployment insurance benefits under section 256 of the California Unemployment Insurance Code. APDN, presently based in Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook is a hamlet (unincorporated community) (and census-designated place) located in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York. The population was 13,727 at the 2000 census. , claims to offer botanical DNA-based protection against counterfeiting, fraud, identity theft and similar illegal acts. "Two of the three former executives worked for several months without pay, out of loyalty to the company and promises based on supposedly groundbreaking technology provided by Biowell Technologies Inc. of Taiwan, and the third remained in employment limbo. After terminating the employees without explanation, APDN claimed that the employees were separated from their jobs because of fraudulent activity," says Peter M. Kunstler, attorney for the claimants. "The Appeals Board agreed that fraud and collusion are false charges. We believe the terminations actually resulted from an array of breaches by both old and new management." Kunstler, of the law firm Makarem & Associates APLC APLC A Professional Law Corporation APLC Australian Plague Locust Commission APLC Alliance Pour La Caledonie (New Caledonia) APLC Abiding Presence Lutheran Church APLC Advanced Placement Language and Composition APLC Anterior-Posterior Lower Cervical , is preparing for the May, 2007 trial of a civil suit against APDN on behalf of four former employees, based on breach of contract and violations of California Labor Law labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class of workers dependent on wages as their source of income. . APDN hired the claimants in 2003 and 2004. Concerns over their employment status and changes in the direction of the company led the claimants to request written severance agreements. The COO/Acting CFO/Contracts Manager of the company, Karin Klemm, executed Addenda to the claimants' employment contracts, which new management contended were fraudulently procured. This was the basis for APDN's challenge which the ALJ ALJ Administrative Law Judge ALJ Association for Legal Justice (Northern Ireland) overruled in the decision confirmed by the Appeals Board. About Makarem & Associates APLC Makarem & Associates APLC represents a wide variety of clientele, including consumers and professionals at all levels of State and Federal Court. It is located in Brentwood, CA. |
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