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Any time you are out of work, forget about looking up the disqualifying things for U.I. File for it anyhow. It is not up to you to make this decision, and you certainly can't pull things off the website and decide you will or will not be approved or should or should not apply for benefits.

If your employer changes your job drastically, for example, you were a secretary and they decide you will do the job of a janitor, don't work a minute at that new job description. Leave the job. Lots of employers will try this horse manure, will try to dramatically change the job description to force a quit. It's not really a disqualifying situation for unemployment.

Now if you quit the job, and cannot show that you had a valid work related reason to quit the job (after you tried to work it out with them and have failed) you chances of receiving unemployment benefits are slimmer but if they walk and dramatically change the job you have been doing, that's a pretty valid reason to quit job. The keyword is refusal of "equivalent" work. An executive assistant who refuses to dig ditches or work securiy isn't being unreasonable.
I agree wholeheartedly with the above three paragraphs with one caveat.

Before you mouth of to your employer about refusing the work make damned sure you have the equivalent of 6 months salary in the bank because you are very likely to be disqualified at the getgo because of your boss' initial statement and it could take you 6 months running through several levels of the appeal process before you win your benefits, if you win your benefits.