Do you have a Question about Unemployment?
January 19, 2013
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Get your Unemployment Benefit questions answered here. Not a government website.
In your situation you will not qualify for unemployment insurance benefits if you quit your job. In most cases, if you quit voluntarily, you are not eligible for these benefits. However, if you resign for good cause you may be able to collect unemployment benefits. Quitting your job because of school work is not a good cause to qualify for unemployment benefits. In general, having good cause for resigning means there are unsolvable problems with the work, which leave an employee with no other options beyond quitting. Additionally, it needs to be documented that the employer was made aware of the situation, and made no effort to rectify it.
Some examples of good cause are:
Unsafe work conditions
Lack of payment
Change in job duties
Ciscrimination
Harassment
I am 5 months (23 weeks) pregnant. I was laid off due to lack of work at the job and they needed to cut hours and pay. What do I need to do to enroll in unemployment and what are the requirements for keeping unemployment?