Unemployment Appeal Hotline

For a claimant’s act to be misconduct, the following four elements must be present, according to Title 22, Section 1256-30(b).

• The claimant owes a material duty to the employer under the contract of employment.
• There is a substantial breach of that duty.
• The breach is a wilful or wanton disregard of that duty.
• The breach disregards the employer’s interests and injures or tends to injure the employer’s interests.

Where the element of willfulness is missing, the claimant’s actions would generally not be misconduct. For example, according to Section 1256-30(b)(3) of Title 22, misconduct generally does not exist, because willfulness is missing, if the claimant:

• Has been merely inefficient.
• Has failed to perform well due to inability or incapacity.
• Has been inadvertent.
• Has been ordinarily negligent in isolated instances.
• Has made good faith errors in judgment or discretion.

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Unemployment Insurance
Telephone Listings

The telephone numbers listed here can be called for unemployment insurance services. Please notice there are separate telephone numbers for English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese languages. Separate telephone numbers are also available for those who call using a teletypewriter, and also from outside California.

If you are calling to file a claim, you must call by Friday to receive credit for the week. Business hours (all times are Pacific Time) for calling the listed telephone numbers are:

• Unemployment insurance claim filing (All claims are filed with a Department representative):
  Monday through Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• General unemployment insurance benefit information (Recording):
  Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays.

• Unemployment insurance check information (Interactive Recording):
  Monday through Saturday: 6:00 a.m. to midnight
  Sunday: 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

NOTE: Unemployment insurance claim filing services are not available on California state holidays. Before placing your call, review Using the Automated Telephone Information System to learn about menu options.

TELEPHONE LISTING – BY LANGUAGE (Inside California Only)

• ENGLISH UNEMPLOYMENT HOTLINE (Filing Claims  / General Information)                         …………1-800-300-5616

• ESPAÑOL UNEMPLOYMENT HOTLINE (Presentación de Solicitudes / Información General) …………1-800-326-8937

• CHINESE UNEMPLOYMENT HOTLINE                                                                                                           …………1-800-547-3506

• VIETNAMESE UNEMPLOYMENT HOTLINE                                                                                                         …………1-800-547-2058

Unemployment Appeal Hotline California

1-888-294-8847

A legal plan for a small business should consider all the activities in the business that might have legal implications. There is no particular format for a legal plan. Simply list in a notebook, the legal issues you foresee and how you plan on addressing them. Here are some legal issues you may wish to plan for:

• The legal structure for your business
• The federal, state, and local legal requirements for operating a business
• Selecting a lawyer
• Business succession planning
• Bankruptcy
• Crime
• Discrimination
• Debt Collection
• Computer Fraud and Abuse
• Intellectual Property
• Labor and Employment
• Landlord and Tenant
• Personal Injury
• Workers Compensation

Obviously, the first legal decision that needs to be planned is what the legal structure of the business will be. Consider while you are making that decision and planning how to implement it, that you may want to change the legal structure in the future. For instance, if you are planning to start as a sole proprietor, you may have a goal of growing enough to eventually "go public", which would require a different legal structure. You don't need to plan how that change would occur, but you may wish to plan when it would occur. You might, perhaps, set a goal of a certain profit level or production level for when you would "go public". Stating that goal in writing should be a part of your legal plan so you can monitor your progress towards it.

Your planning for implementing your initial legal structure should include whether you will want/need an attorney as an advisor or resource, how you set up the legal structure you have chosen, what the federal, state and local reporting and tax obligations are for that legal structure, and what other management issues are involved in the legal structure you have chosen (for instance, if you incorporate, you will need a board of directors). Additionally, there may be legal planning that you need to do to safeguard your name and/or trademark for your business.

Once your business is operational, there will be ongoing legal issues that need to be considered from the list above. Some will be ones that you will want to touch base with regularly, such as federal, state and local regulations. Others will occur only under specialized circumstances, such as going from a business with no employees, to one with at least one employee.

Include your legal plan as part of your business plan. While it may not be commonly included in most business plan outlines, it will impress funders that you have these bases covered.