Is there any way to get unemployment if you quit your job?

I went here (http://www.labor.state.ny.us/faq/uifaq.htm) and this is what they said would disqualify you:

Voluntary Quit and Misconduct You will be disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance if:

You quit a job without good cause; or
You quit a job due to marriage; or
You lost a job because of misconduct; and
You have not subsequently worked and earned five times your benefit rate.

so "You quit a job without good cause" must mean that you can quit a job and still get unemployment...right? I wonder what they classify as "good cause" though.

good cause probably has to be medical or something

According to the law, you may be eligible if you were fired for poor performance. However, if your employer is able to show that you were fired for deliberate misconduct or violation of a company rule, you may be disqualified.

Will I be able to collect UI benefits if I quit my job?
According to the law, if you left your job voluntarily with good cause (attributable to your employer) or for an urgent or compelling personal reason, you may be eligible. However, you must meet all the requirements of the law, including being able to work if a job were offered to you.

does overworked and underpaid count?

Put it this way - I would give you compensation if I could.
-- adam.r.l. (adamr...), February 24th, 2005.

that was the light at the end of the tunnel that I was looking for.

Failing that quit your job, leave it four weeks and say you went abroad to work but the job abroad never panned out and now you are back.

Again, you're not going to be checked up on.

that was 10 years ago, though.

One out of every four (26%) UI claims that is rejected in New York because of an
insufficient work history was improperly denied according to the U.S. Department of
Labor’s latest quality control review (Figure 3). This error rate is three times the level of
each of the neighboring states and triple the national average as well. This problem raises
questions related to the reporting of wage information by employers and monitoring of
the system by the state.

http://www.nelp.org/docUploads/pub178%2Epdf

ffs:

http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_unemployment_NY.html
http://www.nysegov.com/citguide.cfm?displaymode=normal&fontsize=100&contrast=lod&superCat=36&cat=222&content=main
http://www.google.com/

there are few states (The west coast states being three of them) where your employer doesn't necessarily have that much authority over your getting UI benefits or not, in case "something happens". I do know that end-of-contracts and being laid off in WA state, provided you worked in WA at least 9-12 months or so, means you get UI benefits, no questions asked.. (unless there's something in your initial contract preventing you from getting them, which would seem very suspicious to me.)

Am I eligible for unemployment if I am moving for school and don't have work/school for the month of August?

burrito

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xp!

I got fired from a temp assignment after one week. It's complete bullshit, but I'm gonna assume I'm fucked on u/e? (thx adamrl this has been bugging me)

adam i think not, but it's different state to state

one thing I have learned is that unemployment compensation seems to be not very well run or audited in this state, because i know several people who claimed and got benefits when they were let go for reasons that were very much their own fault; and I was paid family leave money for time I worked (and was paid) because the state didn't understant the acronym "pto". also, please don't turn me in for that, it was only a small amount.