May I get unemployment if I quit due to company not being run correctly and immorally?
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May I get unemployment if I quit due to company not being run correctly and immorally?
I work in a call center/office environment. Most our calls lately are vendors not being paid by us. Always angry as we cannot help and only transfer to voicemail or take information knowing know one will contact them back but they’ll call us back many upper management keeps resigning, HR office totally revamped overnight due to resignation. Even the director of HR left, and that’s stressing me more. We’ve only not got paid on time once before but it was terrible and scared it’ll repeat now she’s gone and the CEO resigned. These calls are demoralizing to me, plus stressful as I have to listen to the sad stories. One lady couldn’t make payroll because we haven’t paid. Others threaten legal action and just today a woman told me that she and other vendors were taking this to the press. I just want to leave but in my state I wouldn’t get unemployment for quitting.
Asked on July 13, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Kansas
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
If you voluntarily resign from a job, then you are ineligable to receive unemployment benefits. As a general rule this is true no matter the reason that you left, even if the company was being run immorally and poorly.
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
No, unfortunately, if your company is being run in a poor, inefficient, immoral, or even just plain stupid way--which, by the way, is depressingly common; I am in practice for myself because all my former employers were run badly, and I'd rather be my own boss--that is not legal justification for quitting or resigning, and if you do, you will be ineglible for unemployment because it is a voluntary termination of employment. That fact that is a logical or understandable thing to do under the circumstances is irrelevant; if you choose to leave your job, you cannot receive unemployment.
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