My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: Iowa
I worked for a media company as a sales person. I was promised a guarantee of a certain amount for the first 6 months and a guaranteed client list billing a certain amount.
Accepted the position and first thing that happened is the client list promised wasn't supplied. Five months in, my billing wasn't close to my guarantee for summer (was in the fall) and both my manager and the station manager agreed to extend my guarantee 3 mos.
In the meantime, myself and two other female sales people complained to HR about sexual harassment going on.
Station manager fired and new station manager didn't like me. Not only was my guarantee not going to be extended (meaning my income would drop to less than 25%; lower than minimum wage!), they are ending the 6 month agreement early, Also, all of my clients were up for review and I wasn't guaranteed to be keeping them. (So, if I stay, I'll lose my bigger clients) In a sense forcing me to quit. I was also told I was being recommend for termination and a Last Chance Agreement.
I quit because of the change in pay and the fact I wasn't getting what I was promised. I filed for unemployment and won benefits. They didn't show up to that first hearing. I didn't even get to go into everything because she stopped me after hearing about the guarantee.
They've now filed an appeal based on: 1) claimant was discharged for misconduct 2) claimant voluntarily left for good cause attributable to the employer and 3) whether the claimant is overpaid.
I"m honestly flustered and don't know what to do. They told me in the quit/fire meeting that they'll hold me to my non compete. Should I hire a lawyer? ANy advice??

