Any time you are out of work for as much as a few days, about a week, any time you can look back for the previous Sunday through Saturday week and you have made less in gross wages than you could draw in unemployment benefits for that week, (max around $415 per week in KY) you can then file for unemployment insurance. This is to be figured by hours worked times hourly rate, regardless of how you are actually paid, weekly, monthly, bi-weekly. This is to keep an employer from putting employees on administrative leave forever and never officially telling them they're fired, which might cause them to wait about filing an unemployment claim.
Your filing for unemployment and the end of the first week you are off without pay will sometimes motivate an employer to make a quicker decision to either call you back to work or to go ahead with a regular termination. If you file a claim, they have to file an answer regarding the reason you are not working, and if it is through no fault of your own, even if it is because they want to do some sort of investigation before calling you back, they either have to pay you, or let you receive unemployment benefits while you're not being paid by them.
