My husband had applied unemployment benefit from Labor Department before. That was almost 20 year ago. But I think the rule has never been changed.
The money that you get from the Labor Department is not paid by the government completely. Your employer has to pay some kind of insurance/tax to cover this cost in regular base. Just like your car or home owner insurance, if you have file one or more claim, the premium will increase. So if your employer has fired w/o cause or laid off an employee, their cost of this insurance/tax will have chance to go up also.
So if you just want to get a job which might not pay much more (or even less) than your current unemployment benefit, then after work for a short period of time then "quit" and expect your new employer will give you a "separation notice". I truly doubt that new employer will do you that favor.
What my husband did before was he worked with temp agent, they would find him some contract jobs in his field, which some time even paid better than permanent job, before he found a real good permanent job he really want. When a contract job ended, normally last a couple months or more, he would be able to continue collect unemployment benefit before next contract job available.
Hopefully, this information will help somebody a little in this still bad economy situation.
p.s. If someone gets fired with a cause, will not able to collect any unemployment benefit. |