Employment Law Information

You don’t “get put on unemployment”. If you are injured at work, worker’s comp will pay for your medical bills. If you can’t work, it will also pay for around 65% of your base salary.

In order to get unemployment you would have to have lost your job through no fault of your own and then YOU would have to apply for unemployment benefits. However, you can’t collect both unemployment and workers comp. Worker’s comp means you can’t work. Unemployment means you can work and you must be available and able to work in order to collect it. If you are so much as sick or go on vacation while you’re on unemployment, you must deduct those days because you were not available to work.

If you are on workers comp and you got laid off while you were on it, I would contact your state’s department of labor or an employment attorney because it could be intepreted as retaliation for your injury. That’s illegal, but some employers do it, anyway. What you need to do is download Work Laws Expose to learn how to protect your job when you’ve been injured at work, along with other events that happen in the workplace.