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    Default Can You Get Unemployment After Qutiting Due to an Abusive Boss

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Ohio

    A great friend worked for a very small employer (under 10 employees). The boss' abusive behavior chased away most of the ten - now down to two warehouse employees. My friend was his office manager and as each employee left, she was given the additional work to do of the employees who quit. She was never given a raise in fourteen years and never given sales commissions that she was promised when she took over the sales person's job.

    Over the past few years as the business deteriorated, the boss became more and more verbally abusive to the remaining employees. Luckily he was not in the office more than a few hours a week.

    After a final verbal explosion last Tuesday, my friend became so nervous, she up and left at lunchtime. She cried for hours and finally decided she wasn't going back.

    First question: I'm assuming that if she files for unemployment, he will contest her application. Does she have a right to collect in this case?

    Second question: If she can't collect unemployment, should she consider filing charges for verbal abuse?

    Thanks.

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    Default Re: After Leaving Due to Verbal Abuse, Can an Employee Claim Unemployment Benefits in

    It is unlikely that she will qualify for unemployment in this case. Without knowing exactly what you are equating as verbal abuse, I am not prepared to say for certain, but I'd say the odds are against her.

    There is no such legal charge as "verbal abuse".

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    Default Re: After Leaving Due to Verbal Abuse, Can an Employee Claim Unemployment Benefits in

    The sad thing is there were some good cause quit issues here. In conjunction with the items below, she also would need to prove that she notified her employer of the issues, and they failed to do anything about it.

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    My friend was his office manager and as each employee left, she was given the additional work to do of the employees who quit. She was never given sales commissions that she was promised when she took over the sales person's job.
    However, UI concerns itself with that thing that made her quit, and verbal abuse rising to the level where you'd quit is near impossible to prove without audio/video or a very credible witness.

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