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policy that has been enforced against other employees,

will be disqualified. You can be similarly confident that

an employee who is terminated for financial reasons, or

simply for poor performance, will still be able to collect

benefits. Closer questions arise when an employee is

terminated for violating a company expectation that is

not documented, or a company policy that is sporadically

enforced.

Usually an employee who quits voluntarily is

ineligible to collect unemployment, but there are

exceptions here as well. First, if the employee can

establish that he had good cause for leaving based on

something the employer did (examples include non-

payment of wages, in some circumstances a pay cut or a

demotion or other change in job circumstances), he will

be eligible for benefits. Second, if the employee can

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