Unemployment denied should I appeal (claim, payment, qualify, record)

[RyneVidree]

My husbands unemployment got denied because the last employer he worked for claimed my husband quit his job without given notice. My husband never walked out or gave a notice he quit. They even stated that he quit on December 12,2020. The employer cut my husbands hours slowly over time from 40 hours to no hours at all and even took him off the schedule because they did a mass hiring and started cutting hours left and right. My husband didn’t even know he still had the job due to the fact he had no scheduled hours. It makes no sense that they claimed he quit on December 12th when he worked grabbed a shift on the 26th of December and got paid on the 31st because it was a job that paid weekly. We were wondering if it would be worth to go through with the appeal with this knowledge and if he would have a chance of winning if he told this to the appeal officer.

[Rabrrita]

What state is this in?

What evidence/documentation dies he have to support his version of events?

[RyneVidree]

State of Ohio. We pulled up bank records of 3 direct deposits made from the employer made on Dec 10, Dec 17 and December 31. And the employer stated that my husband quit without notice on December 12, 2020

[Rabrrita]

Does those deposits accompanied by a pay explanation showing actual wages for work? Payments alone could be twisted to say they were for payout of accrued vacation, reimbursement for advance unused medical premium, return of deposit on company equipment, earned bonus, audit of payroll, etc. You really need some pay statement to show the deposit was for work performed. If you have that, great. If not, it's just a detour.

Does he have copies of the schedules or can he have someone get him those back schedules?

Does he have any phone logs showing he contacted the employer on days he was not schedule checking to see if he was on it or if any work came up?

[RyneVidree]

He didn’t qualify for any vacation time because he didn’t reach the work period it took to qualify for those benefits with the company yet. He can no longer access his schedule or anything because the credentials they gave him when he first started became invalid and when he reached out to the company they kept putting him on hold in hopes he would hang up. He was employed as of Dec 26. Because that was the last date he was scheduled. They never notified him of termination they just cut his hours down to 0 and stopped providing assignments. They claimed he quit without reasoning on December 12.2020 for another job when that wasn’t the case he’s been working with that company till the last paycheck that was sent.

[Rabrrita]

If the employer is saying he quit without notice (job abandonment) there really isn't anything they show but their own notations that he quit. It's one of the easiest for them to show. It's an extra added bonus when they do it by not scheduling an employee to work. So, the burden to prove job abandonment under this situation is a piece of cake.

Now, your husbands job is to prove them wrong. He does that by having the employer admit he was working or showing he did in fact work. So, lets get back to my question:

1. Does he have any payroll or earnings statement accompanying the deposits that show it was for work performed? As I said, a deposit alone could be for anything the company claims. He needs to show it was for work performed.

2. Is there anyway he can get anyone (coworker) to access past schedules to show he wasn't on it?

3. Can he show by documentation (like a cell phone log) attempts to contact the company about the scheduling during the disputed period?