My wife was hired by a small, private daycare operation in August and was given the task of developing and coordinating their pre-K curriculum on the pretense that it was an ongoing assignment. She actually developed the curriculum faster than the employer had expected and was suddenly asked to provide all the original materials (including her own copies to work from) to them within a day's time. The next day (a Friday), she was told that she would no longer be paid salary and was being changed to hourly. That following Monday she was told that she was officially laid off and that as a consideration for her dedication as an employee would be considered in the event that the daycare needed someone to fill in for teachers that needed to leave early or take personal time and that this might amount to 3-5 hours at any given day, but there was no guaranty of anything being available. Additionally, the amount of pay was effectively a $6 per hour reduction and the free child-care benefits would not continue. The daycare was otherwise fully staffed and nothing was available immediately. My wife had declined this as it didn't make sense to be 'on call' part-time as it would impact us seriously in a financial sense. We need something more stable.
My wife filed for unemployment after this and was recently turned down given the excuse that the employer notified the IL unemployment office that she had offered my wife a full time position as a teacher which is an outright lie. IL bases the employer contribution to UI partially on their record of how many terminated employees file for UI within a given time period. It sounds to me like they are trying to save money here by giving false information about the termination status. There isn't anything in writing that proves that no real position was offered or available. Can an employer be liable to their former employee for falsification of information that resulted in a denial of UI benefits? Does anyone think that there may be other infringements that occurred here in the means in which the employer cunducted themselves in this situation that could be worthy of pursuing?
Sorry for the long message, but to get the full jist of the matter, it is kind of necessary to go over the key parts.

