If you are terminated for not returning to an unsafe workplace, or if you have involuntarily resigned for declining to “go back,” when applying for Unemployment Benefits, it is important that you alert your local Unemployment Benefits Office of those facts, because it may well entitle you to unemployment benefits, even though resigning employees are usually denied them.

This Model Letter is one we suggest you might use in this circumstance. It could make the difference in your being found eligible for Unemployment Benefits.