can you recieve unemployment if you have been suspended qith out pay
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can you recieve unemployment if you have been suspended qith out pay
i have been suspened can i recieve
unemployment
Asked on September 24, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
As a general rule, being suspended without pay constitutes being "unemployed" for purposes of eligibility for collecting unemployment benefits. However, why you were suspended is significant. Therefore, if you were suspended "for cause", tht is for doing something which could get a person fired for cause (i.e. violating rules, theft, assault on a co-workers, etc.), then just as you could not collect benefits if fired for cause, you could not collect it for being suspended for cause.
Contract you state unemployment insurance office or division, or simply try filing for unemployment. The state office determines who gets it; if they give it to you, it doesn't matter what the theory is. As long as you are not committing fraud--that is, as long as you believe in good faith that you may be entitled to UI--there is nothing wrong with getting a determination directly from the office.
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