Can I Quit PT Job Refuses to Give FT Hours (receive, work)

[Ticatica]

I want to quit this job now that they have leveled with me that I can't get full time hours and benefits. But I don't want to endanger the Unemployment Benefits I receive due to losing my real full time job due to Covid. In a few months they will reopen and I thought this job would close the gap. I get a partial unemployment check. I realize I am better off letting this job go so I can get something better until my real job opens again. But is that seen as refusing work?

[Ticatica]

Originally Posted by El Titere

That's a full-fledged voluntary quit that will cost you all of your benefits. You're stuck with this job now.

Does this mean that I should get hired elsewhere first, then ditch the dead end job? I frankly wanted to be free to use the whole week to barnstorm. I've already talked to two other potential employers, one said he could DEFINITELY offer me more money and better treatment. I'm sick of being in limbo for weeks thinking I was going to get a much better package.

[Ticatica]

This is what I found so far:


Part-Time Earnings: You are not eligible to receive benefits for any week in which you are working full time. However, you may be eligible for benefits if (1) your regular hours of work are reduced because of lack of work, (2) you are separated from your job and have obtained other employment with fewer hours of work, or (3) you are separated from one job but continue to have part-time employment with another employer(s).
If you are working part time during a week and earn no more than your partial benefit credit, your earnings will not reduce your benefits for that week. If you earn more than your partial benefit credit, the amount of your earnings that exceed your partial benefit credit will reduce your benefits for that week on a dollar-for-dollar basis. If you earn more than the sum of your weekly benefit rate and your partial benefit credit, you are not eligible for benefits.