Eligible for unemployment if fired for being pregnant?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It depends on when you are let go. If you are let go right when you are about to give birth, you are not eligible for unemployment because you have to willing and able to work.


After you get the all clear from your doctor to go back to work you can then file for unemployment then.

Please link to your source, IF you're telling the truth.

I've actually been through this myself. I was let go when I was put on bedrest and not able to perform the duties of my job. The company I worked for was too small for FMLA to apply to. I wasn't able to file for Unemployment until about 6 weeks after giving birth when I was given the go ahead to go back to work.

You can only file for Unemployment if you are willing and able to work. You also have to be looking for work while you are collecting. Every state is a little different as to what they require as far proof of actively looking for work. In New York where I was they were very strict and had a lot of requirements as far as looking for work, so it would be hard to cheat the system there. I had to go in a meet with someone at least once a month and had to submit proof of my job search.

Unemployment is not for people to collect while on maternity leave, the rules are pretty clear about that.


OP, you should look into short term disability. In some states you can collect short term disability while pregnant and/or out on maternity leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on when you are let go. If you are let go right when you are about to give birth, you are not eligible for unemployment because you have to willing and able to work.


After you get the all clear from your doctor to go back to work you can then file for unemployment then.

Please link to your source, IF you're telling the truth.

The rules are always the same: you have to be actively seeking employment, and you can't put too many restrictions on it (such as, only 3 days a week, 8-4 or something, or, only within a two-block radius of your home).

Unemployment is not disability insurance, which is for when you can't work.

Yeah, the "doctors note" was a bunch of crap.

Maybe it was because I was on bed rest when I was let go from my job, but I did have to provide a doctors note. Basically I had to prove that I was willing and ABLE to go back to work at that point.