In my state, if they hire you full time, then do not provide the work you can draw unemployment -

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  • They don't care... - mom2huskies
  • Spheris will most likely assign you another account. - nm
    • then that account will disappear and they'll assign another. - nm
  • In my state, if they hire you full time, then do not provide the work you can draw unemployment - - Amanda
  • I did hear that... - anon
    • I will. Thank you. - NM

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Depends on the State you live in.  Asking your State Unemployment Office would give you accurate information.  You may be able to e-mail them (I know getting through by phone in almost all States is a pain now).  They may also have answers to that exact question on their Website FAQ.  I am sure others have had that same question. 

But, before you waste too much time, you really have to ask yourself if you like your job. 

A lot of people do not know how employers are charged Unemployment.  For those who do not, here is how it works. 

Unemployment is paid by the State government. Employers pay into a fund based upon the number of employees they have. The State government collects the money paid in and puts it into a trust fund. Unemployment benefits are then paid out from the trust fund. The amount of money (unemployment insurance premiums) an employer pays is based upon their history of payouts. A company that has high numbers of payout will pay more per employee then will a company who fires or lays no one off  (like auto insurance - a person with more accidents on their history pays higher premiums then a driver with a clean record).  This can range from 0% to 6% of taxable payroll. They also have to pay an Administrative Tax to the State, who has to keep track of the UC Claim and print out the check, etc.  This is also a percentage. It gets pretty complicated after that.  

 That is why employers fight every new Unemployment claim.  It is one thing to piss off a former employer (especially if you were fired and never plan to work for them again) and pissing off your current employer.  So you really have to be sure the amount of money you can get from your employer in Unemployment is worth the pain they can inflict on you.  We all know employers who make life miserable for an employee by giving them the god-awful dictators and QA them to death in order to get them to quit so they do not have to pay Unemployment, and there is no way to prove that. 

Hope this helps. 

Good Luck. 

I left a full-time position at a hospital for another facility who offered more money.  The manager at the new facility who hired me told me that I was being hired as a full-time employee, but that I would have to work part-time for 2 weeks until the girl I was replacing left for good.   This girl stayed on for another 2 months until she finally left, and then when she did the facility was cutting back on costs.  So not only did they plan on keeping me part-time, but they wanted me to work 2 different days at 2 different facilities for 4 hours per day.  Each of these facilities was 30 miles from my house (the original one I applied at was in my same rural town), and so between paying for daycare for 6.5 hours a day and the mileage for driving back and forth for only 4 hours, it ended up costing me more to work than it did to look for another job.  I applied for unemployment insurance and at first was turned down.  But, then I won the appeal because I had printed out all email correspondence where she stated I would be hired full-time within 2 weeks.   The unemployment office said it was unfair hiring practices or something like that.

But in the case of working at home, and if you work for the same company I think you do (because I just left a company for some of the exact same reasons), they stipulate that you must meet a quota in order to be considered full-time with benefits.   It is extremely unfair if the quota can't be met due to THEIR fault, but I think that's how they get you over the barrel. 

TransTech should not be giving out work to PT people on their DAY OFF, or any other time BEFORE a full-time MT has enough work    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can anyone explain how $900 equals full-time?  Does everyone have the same line rate so that it takes everyone the same amount of time and sweat to get to the $900?.  Thanks.