25% pay cut may justify quit for unemployment comp
A 25% cut in hours and pay and a requirement to pay 50% of health insurance previously fully paid by the employer may justify an employee’s voluntary quit of her job and leave her qualified for unemployment compensation payments, according to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The Court has remanded a case to an administrative law judge to determine whether the facts justified her quitting in her particular case. The Consumer Action Network imposed an across the board cut of hours and pay because of budget constraints. The organization’s director of training concluded that she could not afford to live on the reduced wages and resigned. At the administrative hearing, she admitted...
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