Unemployment After Quitting in Tennessee

You are disqualified if you left your most recent work voluntarily without good cause connected with the work. The disqualification lasts until you work again in covered employment and earn ten times your weekly benefit amount. Leaving because of sickness, disability or pregnancy is treated as quitting without good cause, but you can become eligible if you prove with medical evidence that you were forced to leave, gave the employer written notice as soon as practical, were later able to return, offered to return to your former duties, and the employer did not rehire you. The disqualification does not apply if you left to join the U.S. armed forces, or to follow a military spouse on a military transfer.

You must file an appeal within 15 calendar days of the date of the agency's decision. File online by logging in to your Unemployment Claimant e-Services account at Jobs4TN.gov, selecting the determination and clicking File Appeal. An appeals hearing officer takes testimony and evidence and decides based only on what is presented at the hearing. A party who disagrees with the hearing officer's decision can appeal to the Office of Administrative Review, also within 15 calendar days.