{"id":5786,"date":"2016-11-25T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:00:42","slug":"unemployment-benefits-likely-gone-quit-job-without-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/unemployment-benefits-likely-gone-quit-job-without-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Benefits Likely Gone If You Quit Your Job Without a Good Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/attorneys\/joseph-g-ballstaedt\">By Joseph G. Ballstaedt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In Idaho, if you leave your job voluntarily (rather than being fired), you are not eligible for unemployment benefits unless you left for<a href=\"ttps:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/idstat\/Title72\/T72CH13SECT72-1366.htm\"> \u201cgood cause connected with [your] unemployment.\u201d <\/a>The term \u201cgood cause\u201d does not have an exact definition, and what constitutes good cause will depend on the unique facts of each individual case, but an employee\u2019s decision to quit must be based on circumstances that are \u201creal, not imaginary, substantial not trifling, and reasonable, not whimsical.\u201d <em>Ullrich v. Thorpe Elec.<\/em>, 109 Idaho 820, 823, 712 P.2d 521, 524 (1985). Also, rather than quit, an employee must explore viable options to resolve work problems and keep his job. <em>See Ellis v. Northwest Fruit &amp; Produce<\/em>, 103 Idaho 821, 654 P.2d 914 (1982). And if he does quit, an employee must prove that good cause existed (the employer does not have to prove that good cause did not exist).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several decades, Idaho courts have determined that employees did <em>not<\/em> have good cause to quit under the following circumstances:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/unemployment-benefits-likely-gone-quit-job-without-good-reason\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Unemployment Benefits Likely Gone If You Quit Your Job Without a Good Reason\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joseph G. Ballstaedt \u00a0In Idaho, if you leave your job voluntarily (rather than being fired), you are not eligible for unemployment benefits unless you left for \u201cgood cause connected with [your] unemployment.\u201d The term \u201cgood cause\u201d does not have an exact definition, and what constitutes good cause will depend on the unique facts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unemployment Benefits Likely Gone If You Quit Your Job Without a Good Reason|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Joseph G. 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