This is a throwaway because my ex-coworkers know my main account. I’m in California.
I worked full time remotely at a company for 5 years. My wife is a stay home mom and we have two kids (a 2 year old, and a 6 month old). In the final two months of my employment, I got fewer and fewer projects to work on. In April, my boss emailed and told me they were going to change my full time employment to part time, dropping me from 40 hours to 8 hours or less per week, and that I will also lose all of my benefits. He said they didn’t have have enough projects to keep me busy. I can't afford to lose my hours and medical benefits (it is what covers my family!), so I emailed my boss and pointed it out to him that cutting my hours from 40 hours to 8 hour or less is a lay off. That I would rather he just laid me off so I can start looking for a new job. He agreed and told me he is going to process my lay off per my request.
I applied for unemployment and during the phone interview for unemployment eligibility, the interviewer told me my boss told them that I quit my job because I was not satisfied with the work. I told them that was not true as I was laid off. The interviewer told me they were going to investigate. Today I called the EDD office to follow up, and they told me my claim was denied and that I would a denial letter within a week.
I have been applying for jobs and have couple interviews lined up. I also have enough emergency funds to cover for expenses while I’m looking. But I do need the unemployment money in case I can't find a job in time.
Do I have a case for an appeal?
Submitted June 06, 2017 at 10:28AM by EDDdeniedThrowaway http://ift.tt/2sOeAxx
