Retaliation?? Unemployment lies?!?

[commentator]

It sounds as though the initial claim has been filed, and the claim has been approved if the OP is receiving benefits. If the employer has filed an appeal, contesting the claim, saying the person voluntarily quit by walking off the job, then there will be a hearing, and in the hearing first the employer will present their evidence that the former employee voluntarily quit the job. Then the OP will tell what happened, the circumstances under which she left the office, feeling threatened, telling the employer she was going to go away for a while until he regained control....it doesn't quite sound, if her hours were cut to 4 and then to zero, that this would be considered a "voluntary quit." The OP needs to reiterate that she did not want to leave her job, that she needed the job and had no intention of quitting. She more or less "got quit" by her employer.

There is no law against lying in an unemployment situation. The hearing is done in the assumption that either or both of the parties may be lying, and the decision is based on which one is "most believable."

 

[mlane58]

I would hope that commentator adds to this.

It is not considered job abandonment when a person walks away from a volatile space to cool down.

File the unemployment. If the employer contests the claim, then file the appeal. At the appeal, you state your facts. The employer has to prove their case.

Good luck!

Thats your opinion and it's only an opinion. Walking away from the job is abandoment, maybe not for uei purposes, but for the employer, it can and is most times considered job abandoment.

 

[eerelations]

Walking away from the job is abandoment...for the employer, it can and is most times considered job abandoment.

Unless you've discussed this with every single employer in the US, you cannot possibly know this.

(I could name ay least 50 American employers that wouldn't consider the OP's particular situation to be job abandonment - and those are just the ones I can name!)