Hi there, graceous! Nope, if they are calling you a 1099 contractor, they are not paying in employer taxes. When the job ends, for the purposes of opening another unemployment claim, it will be as though NOTHING has happened. You will have zero monetary eligibility for these quarters you have worked, when it comes to calculating a new unemployment claim.
The reason they are paying you more and pretending you are a contractor is so they don't have to pay in, and at the end of the year, is it really really more money than you were making, really?? Seriously, when it comes time to pay in your income tax for the year and you have had zero take outs? Read the definitions of an independent contractor, and realize that you will be getting none of the benefits of this arrangement (ability to set your own hours, ability to supervise your own workload) and all of the disadvantages. Such as that there's no unemployment, no taxes taken out, no protection if the employer suddenly forgets to pay you, or underpays you or whatever they do to you. Any employer who wants to misclassify you to save and create a position that is illegal to avoid their obligations is not, in my honest opinion, anyone you want to waste time working for.
But for unemployment insurance purposes, right now, if you choose to work it, it's as though this job never existed. So you stop your unemployment claim, right? Do not even THINK about working one minute for this 1099 situation and filing a claim for unemployment insurance at the same time. Because I can promise you one thing. When you file your state and federal income taxes after this year, if you have a 1099 coming in and a period in which you drew unemployment benefits, the system is going to pull this up and your claim is going to be scraped through and examined and you'll probably be called in and checked on and your days, hours and minutes of when you drew and when you worked as an independent contractor will be compared. Make sure you pass muster on this and did not work one minute that you were filing an unemployment claim for. By ceasing to certify for weeks that have passed, you have stopped your claim, and rendered yourself ineligible for unemployment after the first week you have worked and made more money in any Sunday through Saturday in gross wages for this "contract" than you could've drawn in unemployment, you've removed yourself from the labor market. Make sure you've done this.
Then the job ends, right? Say you take the job, stop drawing unemployment after drawing 6 weeks of benefits. You work say, three months, and then are laid off let go quit cease to work the job ends the employer dies stops paying you....whatever. You re open your unemployment claim. It won't be a problem. Between now and the benefit year ending date on your claim papers, which is about a solid year from the date your claim was filed, you will still have a certain number of weeks to draw benefits, probably about 20. You are not starting a new claim. You are re opening the claim you already have in effect for one year from the date the original claim was filed.
This 20 weeks you had left on the claim hypothetically puts you on up to about August or September. You run out of benefits. No more unemployment, regardless of circumstances, until that benefit year (BYE) has passed. Say that BYE date is December, 2017. After that date in 2017, you can reapply for another claim. But guess what? There's no work, no quarters of wages showing up in that period of time you worked as a 1099 contractor. There's nothing for them to call "reearnings", which is a requirement to re open the claim. Wages you earned as a 1099 don't count as reearnings, and do not go into the calculation of a new claim.
The job did not exist, for unemployment purposes, unless, when it ended, you reopened your claim, and at the same time, issued a complaint against your 1099 employer stating that they misclassified you. It wouldn't have anything to do with your current unemployment claim, but eventually the DOL might have gone back and forced the employer to reclassify employees correctly. It's iffy. Might or might not change your eventual unemployment situation.
My best advice is DO NOT WORK FOR AN EMPLOYER AS A MISCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE PAID WITH A 1099. Its a bad idea. You generally get what you deserve in this situation.