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    My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: nv

    Hello, I was a full time day shift person for 8 years. After returning from maternity leave, I requested part time night shift and my employer worked with me and changed my employment status to part time. I was told this will be permanent. After 4 months, I was told that they needed me to return to day shift full time and if I deny, my position will be open for recruitment. I was shocked and totally lied too about my part time position. After a few months, I received a letter of resignation saying that since I refused to return to day shift full time work, I was resigning. I never offered to resign or give them any resignation letter. I left a letter with the HR person on my last day and told her i was lied too and misled. HR contacted me a few days later and said they will not contest because of my situation.I have an interview with the unemployment adjudicator and
    I have a few questions.

    1. Can I be denied unemployment because I restrict can work only part time?
    2. Does a person have to be available to accept full time, part time, and any shift to be eligible fr unemployment.

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    Default Re: Part Time and Unemployment

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    My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: nv

    Hello, I was a full time day shift person for 8 years. After returning from maternity leave, I requested part time night shift and my employer worked with me and changed my employment status to part time. I was told this will be permanent. After 4 months, I was told that they needed me to return to day shift full time and if I deny, my position will be open for recruitment. I was shocked and totally lied too about my part time position. After a few months, I received a letter of resignation saying that since I refused to return to day shift full time work, I was resigning. I never offered to resign or give them any resignation letter. I left a letter with the HR person on my last day and told her i was lied too and misled. HR contacted me a few days later and said they will not contest because of my situation.I have an interview with the unemployment adjudicator and
    I have a few questions.

    1. Can I be denied unemployment because I restrict can work only part time?
    2. Does a person have to be available to accept full time, part time, and any shift to be eligible fr unemployment.
    You do realize that unemployment benefits are available to people who are looking for work, right? If you are not available to accept any type of offered work, you can be denied.

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    Default Re: Part Time and Unemployment

    I'd get away from the word lying unless you have verifiable evidence that, when they initially agreed to let you go part time and change your shift (which they did not have a legal obligation to do), they already knew that they would only be allowing it for a short period of time. Needs can change and agreements made in April aren't always still possible in August, but that doesn't mean that in April they KNEW that it wouldn't be possible in August.

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    Default Re: Part Time and Unemployment

    The availability for part-time vs full-time is a state thing. I'd say the norm is that you must be available for full-time, but that only means that if offered full-time, saying that solely because it was full-time would not be good cause to refuse it. On the flip side, the state rarely gets involved in the type of work you apply for. You're more than welcome to confine your search for part-time work on a shift that you perfer. Just remember that because you apply for what you want doesn't mean that you won't be offered something else, and that still means that if you turn it down, there's going to be a refusal of work issue to decide.

    There are some state's that if you work the correct amount of time in part-time work, and lose that part-time work, that you may limit your search to part-time work and refuse offers of full-time work for that reason because your prior employment was part-time.

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    In many states, you can refuse a job for only good reasons....much lower pay, much further drive.

    Unemployment also expects you to be available 24/7/365, any shift.

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