TLDR: my old boss called my new boss and asked why I opened an unemployment claim against them before I started working for my new job. Now my new job doesn't want to keep me.
I worked for Company A full-time for over a year. Company A decides they no longer can afford to keep me on as an employee and outsources my job to Company B which is a contract company. Company B agrees to hire me, potentially to return to Company A's facility and continue performing my role with Company A. In the meantime the expectation was I would work as a subcontractor for Company B, performing other roles as directed. Before I began working for Company B, as a fallback, I opened a claim through the state for unemployment benefits against Company A just in case things with Company B didn't work out. I did not complete the filing process; however. Fast forward 2 weeks (I've only worked 4 days at this point), my boss from Company B questions me about filing an unemployment claim against Company A. Company A called him at Company B asking why I filed and if I was employed by them. My new boss explained that they (Company A) were very upset about it and described the situation as “a little issue.” I explained that I opened an unemployment claim, but I did not file it. (I didn't finish a few steps in the process, leaving the filing incomplete.) After another week, Company B is now describing the situation as an “integrity issue” because Company A says I filed an unemployment claim against them while being employed by Company B. My new boss says he is going to look at the unemployment claim documents provided to him by Company A to make sure what I'm saying is true. Is all of this even legal? Why it would matter to Company B considering I still fall into the guidelines of “partially employed” as written on Louisiana's unemployment website. I do not work full-time for Company B.