If your business terminates an employee, that person may be entitled to unemployment benefits. Each state has its own program and rules, but generally, if you let someone go because of cutbacks or because he or she isn’t a good fit, he or she will qualify for benefits.If you fire someone for serious misconduct — stealing or selling drugs in the workplace, for example — he or she won’t qualify for unemployment payments. The same goes for an employee who quits without a good cause.It’s not always easy to apply these rules to a particular termination. Suppose you and an
