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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't. Unemployment isn't available if you quit. So don't do it, OP. Insist on being fired or laid off.[/quote]

They don't want to pay unemployment which is why they asked you to resign.  Make them fire you.[/quote]

No, you can get unemployment if you were forced to resign (i.e. asked to resign instead of getting fired) at least in DC.[/quote]

And in MD.  Several years ago I was asked to resign.  In my resignation letter, I said that "as requested, I am resigning effective..." and provided a copy of this letter when asked about my termination.  I got my unemployment.

Resigning is better than being fired.  There are many places that on the application forms you are asked if you were ever fired or terminated for cause.  If you resign, you can answer that "no"  If you answer "yes" then you have to explain and they have to research and inquire why you were fired for cause.  It's a pain.  If you resign, your company lists that you resigned on such and such date.  If a future employer checks, the company can answer that you resigned on a certain date.  If you are fired, it is so designated that you were fired for X reason and when a future company does an employment check, that's what will be given.

Ask if they have a deadline.  Ask if you can resign in 2 weeks which will be after the first of the month.  If you are employed on the 1st of the month, your employer is forced to pay your health insurance premiums for the month.  This gives you an extra month before you have to consider COBRA or changing your health insurance to your spouse plan or whatever.  The good thing about COBRA is that you don't have to pay for COBRA unless you need health insurance coverage.  If you do, then you can call, activate COBRA and pay any unpaid premiums since the lapse in coverage from your employer.  So say you resign July 1.  You will have health coverage for the month of July from your employer.  You would be eligible for COBRA August 1.  If you don't get sick in August, you don't have to pay August.   If you need insurance in September, you have to pay the August and September premiums and then you are covered. But if you don't need coverage in September and get a new job, then you don't pay any premiums and you will get picked up by your new job's insurance when you start your new job.[/quote]

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