I suppose you mean unemployment compensation. That is administered by the state you live in. The answer is never.
Yes. But if-when you apply for unemployment, eventually (may take months), the employer will likely contest the benefits and ultimately have to explain him-herself.
If you refuse a job and the government finds out you can lose your unemployment entitlements.
In this state, if you work part time, you do not get unemployment. If your employer wants you to take extended unpaid leave and you take it, you can get unemployment. You took leave because your boss asked you to. That choice is like, resign or I will fire you. If your boss will not hire you back immediately, this state gives you unemployment under those circumstances. If you refuse to take either option and you are fired, you can get unemployment. It is obvious that your boss is giving you the choice of take part time work or quit only is not putting it to you in quite those terms.
No, the employer cannot call you at home to demand that you get off unemployment. When you begin drawing unemployment, the employer does not pay directly - there is a fund in which employer deposits are being placed and that fund is where the unemployment payment comes out - nothing to do with your ex-employer. If your ex-employer is harassing you; however, you should call the police and BBB.
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An employer does not need to respond to unemployment agency investigators for you to get unemployment. It's only when they answer in the negative that you might have difficulty getting your benefits, if they can prove their case.
You have the right to file for unemployment, but if you receive a severance package from your employer you may be violating the terms of your severance package by filing for unemployment.
They come from the state. Your employer pays unemployment taxes to the state and the federal governments.
The way that an employer would refuse to give an employee a handbook is they are trying to with hold a benefit.
It isn't. Unemployment benefits are paid by the state which collects it from the employer through the employer's payroll taxes. Employees in all 50 states do not pay into the unemployment system.
Tha state controls unemployment, not employers.
Generally not, if the employer can prove their case with the investigator from the state unemployment office.