Can a Former Employee Receive Unemployment Benefits Ten Months after Voluntarily Quitting to Accept Other Bona Fide Work?
The general rule governing eligibility to receipt of unemployment insurance benefits by a former employee who leaves work voluntarily is contained in Section 601(A) of the Unemployment Insurance Act (“Act”). Section 601(A) generally states that an employee is not eligible for unemployment benefits when he or she leaves work voluntarily and without good cause attributed to the employer. However, Section 601(B)(2) of the Act contains an exception to the general rule and provides that Section 601(A) does not apply to an employee who leaves work voluntarily to accept other bona fide work. Recently, an Appellate Court in the State of Illinois sent a case back to the trial court to consider a former employee’s argument that Section 601(B)(2) allows him to be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits nine months after he quit to be self-employed.. In this case, the former employee worked as a tree trimmer for approximately two and a half years until he quit his job in February, 2003. The f
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