Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 871 - Workforce Development Department › Chapter 24 - Claims and Benefits › Rule 871-24.26 - Voluntary Quit With Good Cause Attributable to the Employer and Separations Not Considered to Be Voluntary Quits

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The following are reasons for a claimant leaving employment with good cause
										attributable to the employer:
(1) A change in the contract of hire.
								 An employer's willful breach of contract of hire shall not be a disqualifiable issue. This would include any
								 change that would jeopardize the worker's safety, health or morals. The change of contract of hire must be
								 substantial in nature and could involve changes in working hours, shifts, remuneration, location of
								 employment, drastic modification in type of work, etc. Minor changes in a worker's routine on the job would
								 not constitute a change of contract of hire.
(2) The claimant
								 left due to unsafe working conditions.
(3) The claimant left due
								 to unlawful working conditions.
(4) The claimant left due to
								 intolerable or detrimental working conditions.
(5) The claimant
								 was laid off by the employer for being pregnant; however, availability must still be determined.
(6) Separation because of illness, injury, or pregnancy.
a.
Nonemployment related separation.
The claimant left
								 because of illness, injury or pregnancy upon the advice of a licensed and practicing physician or physician
								 assistant. Upon recovery, when recovery was certified by a licensed and practicing physician or physician
								 assistant, the claimant returned and offered to perform services to the employer, but no suitable, comparable
								 work was available. Recovery is defined as the ability of the claimant to perform all of the duties of the
								 previous employment.
b.
Employment related
								 separation.
The claimant was compelled to leave employment because of an illness, injury, or allergy
								 condition that was attributable to the employment. Factors and circumstances directly connected with the
								 employment which caused or aggravated the illness, injury, allergy, or disease to the employee which made it
								 impossible for the employee to continue in employment because of serious danger to the employee's health may
								 be held to be an involuntary termination of employment and constitute good cause attributable to the
								 employer. The claimant will be eligible for benefits if compelled to leave employment as a result of an
								 injury suffered on the job.
In order to be eligible under this paragraph
"b"
an individual
										must present competent evidence showing adequate health reasons to justify termination; before quitting have
										informed the employer of the work-related health problem and inform the employer that the individual intends
										to quit unless the problem is corrected or the individual is reasonably accommodated. Reasonable
										accommodation includes other comparable work which is not injurious to the claimant's health and for which
										the claimant must remain available.