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Washington State Supremes: 6 Months Work Equal 1 Year's Pay
The Washington state Supreme Court says workers who leave their jobs on a voluntary basis can still seek unemployment benefits.Whether they get those benefits depends on the reason they left their jobs in the first place. The ruling was handed down last week in the case of Spain v. Employment Security Department and Batey v. Employment Security Department. The case involved two women who quit their jobs, one reportedly citing verbal abuse and the other saying she quit due to disagreements with management. Both were denied unemployment benefits. The court said when the state legislature enacted unemployment benefit rules, it did not disqualify all workers who voluntarily left their jobs but rather those who left "voluntarily without good cause." The ruling goes on to say the legislature has never defined good cause. "We must decide whether the statutory list of reasons that do not disqualify an individual from benefits is also an exhaustive list of good cause reasons to voluntarily leave a job without losing benefit eligibility. We conclude it is not," reads the court written opinion. The court remanded the case back to the state Employment Security Department to determine whether the women had good cause to leave their jobs based on their claims. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-26 |
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