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Black and Latina women are more likely than white women to experience sexual harassment in the workplace. One in four women experience some sort of violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime. These compelling circumstances disproportionately impact women, women of color, and transgender workers. Compelling reasons to quit a jobĪ worker may need to quit their job to escape domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sexual harassment. Most states limit that exception to circumstances related to a worker’s employment and limit it further with a narrow interpretation of good cause, leaving many workers vulnerable and unprotected when other circumstances compel them to quit their job. Every state disqualifies workers from UI if they quit their job but provides an exception if they quit with good cause. Expansion of good cause quit provisions is needed to protect and empower workers, especially women, LGBTQ workers, workers with disabilities, and workers of color who must confront structural racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia that push people out of jobs in multiple ways. States often deny unemployment benefits (UI) to workers even if they are forced to leave their job for compelling reasons. Yet many states do not recognize these and other “good causes” for quitting a job. For example, a worker may need to relocate to protect themselves from domestic violence, stop working to care for an ailing loved one, or leave a job because of an unsafe workplace, a hostile work environment, or a dramatic change in schedule. Sometimes workers have no choice but to quit a job. To receive UI benefits, a worker must be both qualified and eligible (see the definition of “UI eligibility” above). UI Qualification: When a worker meets their state’s UI qualification criteria by, for example, having left a previous job as the result of a layoff or downsizing or because they quit for what the state considers “good cause.” A worker may be disqualified from receiving benefits if they were fired for misconduct or quit their job without good cause, as the state defines it.
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