My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: New Jersey
Situtation: I work for a state university. They laid someone off in my department that was allegedly a "Type 4" employee (hourly, no benefits). After this person was laid off they discovered that they could not collect unemployment because they were listed as a student worker (thus, no unemployment insurance taxes take out of paycheck). Clearly a mistake on the university's part. However, my boss is now hiring this person back as a Type 4 for 6-months simply to make this person elgible for unemployment benefits at the end of her 6-month employment (they plan to lay her off again after 6 months as a Type 4). Is this even legal?

