Unemployment Compensation (M.G.L.c. 151A)

• Employees who are unemployed, actively seeking work and capable of and available for work are eligible for unemployment compensation.
  
• Employees can be disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits for:
  
  • deliberate misconduct in willful disregard of the employer's interests;
    
  • knowingly violating a reasonable and uniformly enforced policy or rule; or
    
  • voluntary resignation without good cause attributable to the employer.
    
• Benefits will also not be paid:
  
  • If the claimant's unemployment is due to a work stoppage which is part of a labor dispute.;
    
  • If the claimant fails to apply for or accept suitable employment;
• If the claimant is not available for work;
  
• If the claimant is receiving workers' compensation benefits; or
  
• For up to 10 weeks if a claimant has been suspended from work for violating established rules.

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