Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I voluntarily resigned my position due to my strong belief that my company was going to lay me off. I was denied unemployment. I have an appeal hearing and want to demonstrate good cause for voluntarily leaving. How do I do that?


Asked on 10/13/11, 9:56 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

In the situation you describe you will not be able to do that. If you quit rather than get laid off, you choose not to get unemployment. Good cause for leaving requires you basically to prove you were forced out rather than being fired and it was not possible or reasonable for you to wait around to be fired because of what the employer did. If you just quit ahead of a layoff you completely blew it and have no unemployment rights.

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Answered on 10/13/11, 11:33 pm


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