Partial Unemployment Benefits (school, salary, business)

[devlaw]

We are a small new business (less than 3 months in) in California. We have 2 employees. We hired an employee on condition that business would pick up. She was to also obtain her certification to match her negotiated salary.

Business is extremely slow and she never worked more than a few hours a day, 5 days a week from the start. She also just informed us that she cannot obtain her certification without having to back to school. She was given 30 days to obtain (no written confirmation of this). It's been more than 30 days now. She's now claiming partial unemployment. Are we on the hook?

Also can we lower her salary to FMV of her services? She basically comes in a few hours a day and does nothing.

[RockyRoadg]

Use a temp agency from now on.

[devlaw]

thank you....something to seriously consider.