Unemployment After Being Fired in Kansas

If you were discharged or suspended for misconduct, you are disqualified until you are reemployed and have earned at least 3 times your weekly benefit amount. Misconduct means violating a duty owed to the employer, such as a company or safety rule you knew or should have known about, that is lawful, job-related and fairly and consistently enforced. Unreported absences can count, but attendance-based misconduct generally requires a prior warning. You are not disqualified for inefficiency, inability, ordinary negligence or good-faith errors. Gross misconduct (such as theft, fraud, intentional damage or injury, any felony, or alcohol or drug use or impairment at work) disqualifies you until you earn 8 times your weekly benefit amount and cancels that employer's wage credits.

You must appeal an examiner's determination within 16 calendar days after it was mailed to your last known address (or delivered, if not mailed); the appeal is heard by a referee. A referee's decision can be appealed to the Employment Security Board of Review within 16 calendar days. Deadlines may be extended for excusable neglect.