I work for a restaurant and between a poorly performing kitchen and the slow shoulder season my hours have been reduced from 5 days a week down to 2 or 3 per week. All of the other staff have experienced this as well. Nobody is being targetted specifically, but we clearly have too much staff. When my boss let a server go he complained that she sought unemployment, so clearly they're just trying to “starve people out”.
Can I claim unemployment and recover some money for lost hours? I'd just go find a second job but I don't have reliable transportation and was trying to use this job to save up and buy a car so I could commute to a second job.