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Getting Your Unemployment Insurance Benefits Even After Being Fired for Rudeness
Being discourteous to your employer’s customers or the public can get you fired. But does it also mean that you lose your unemployment insurance benefits? What if it only happened once? Or what if the customer deserved it? What does the employer have to prove in order to keep you from receiving your unemployment insurance benefits? These and other questions can […]
Read moreBeing Denied Unemployment Benefits – Misconduct Caused By Not Getting Along With Co-Workers
Should you be denied unemployment benefits if you were fired for fighting at work? What if you were let go for annoying behavior toward co-workers. Will you get your benefits then? Does an inability to get along with co-workers automatically keep you from getting your unemployment benefits? These and other questions, arising when a discharge is for unsatisfactory relations with co-workers, are discussed […]
Read moreInsubordinate at Work? You May Still Be Entitled to Your Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
If your employer says you were discharged for “insubordination,” does that mean you automatically lose your unemployment benefits? Not necessarily! Not every disagreement at work is legally considered “insubordination.” For instance, did you know that the employer’s statement that you committed insubordination represents only one viewpoint. The acts which led to your discharge, and your reason for doing (or not doing) the […]
Read moreGetting Unemployment Insurance Benefits Even If You Were Fired for Using Profanity or Obscenities at Work.
You may have been discharged because you allegedly used abusive or profane language toward a co-worker on the job. Can you still get your unemployment insurance benefits? Maybe. It depends on whether or not you have committed “misconduct” as that term is understood by the EDD. You will have committed “misconduct” if you used vulgar, […]
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