How does receiving un-employment work?

I think i have to quit my job...but we don't work for the union. i know people that receive un-employment. how does that work?

How does receiving un-employment work?
That largely depends on what state and county you are in. Check online for your EDD office, see if you can file online. In California you can file a claim online.





You will be asked a series of questions and dates, place of work, why your no longer working. They will send you all the paparwork through the mail, unemployment work search record, what your weekly award will be, a telephone interview date and so forth. Your claim will end exactly a year later from the date you file it. There is a waiting period etc.





I hope this helps
Reply:You can't receive unemployment for quitting your job. You have to be fired or laid off.





Quitting is a voluntary choice made by you to be unemployed. In making that choice, you absolve the company you work for from having to pay you the unemployment out of their unemployment insurance.





You get unemployment from getting laid off or fired. The only way on those is if you are fired for job performance. Then you may not get it, and if you file, your former employer can fight you getting it. If they win, you don't get paid.





I would advise you to either find another job before you quit, or figure something else out, because if you quit, you will be without income.





You do also realize that you only get about 30 - 40 % of your previous income, right? You will not make what you were making while employed. That is how they get people out of the cycle, and back into work. And you can only collect for 26 out of the 52 weeks per year. So you will not be able to just sit on unemployment forever.
Reply:well u have to either be fired ( for a reason other than you doing something to make them fire you, like stealling, horseplay, etc.) or laid off. then you have to go to the unemployment office and fill out an app which list all your jobs from like a year and a half. Don't lie cause they know. OK from that they calculate your wages and btw u have to have good cause to leave your other jobs u listed such as to work a better job. after that they make u wait two weeks to receive a check if you get an approval letter. In the meantime you must fill out the claim cards they send you and send them back(some do it by phone depending on your state) because the checks are a week behind and in case you are denied and appeal you get back pay if u win the case. Hope this helps!
Reply:you "think" you "have" to quit your job? Im confused.
Reply:in order to get unemployment you have to be fired and you have to have worked there a certain amount of time . and you only get so much of the money u were making at work
Reply:look in the phone book under state government. there will be a phone number or address for the office . if you quit you may be pentalized for a period or unable to collect at all. if you are good with employer ask for a layoff