Can you collect unemployment insurance if your employer reduces your hours during your last week of work?
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Can you collect unemployment insurance if your employer reduces your hours during your last week of work?
I gave my employer 1 week notice, during which he reduced my hours to 4 hours a day. Can I collect unemployment insurance due to lack of work ? Or can I stay and wait to get laid off?
Asked on June 15, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Connecticut
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
You say that *you* gave your employer notice. If that's the case, then you are not entitled to any unemployment compensation, either now (during the reduced hours week) or later (at the end of the week). Also, if you gave notice, you will not be laid off--you quit. That's the fundamental issue here; giving notice is resigning or quitting, and if you resign or quit--that is, if you voluntarily leave your employment--you are not entitled to any unemployment insurance or compensation. Note that if you gave notice, the employer *could* have treated your resignation as effective immediately and not let you stay for even reduced hours; and in that event, you still would have likely been ineligible for unemployment insurance, since again, you would have been voluntarily leaving your job.
So leave now or at the end of the week--it doesn't matter. Since you gave notice, you will not receive unemployment insurance.
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