As the title says. Yesterday I got a message from my manager that he needs to see me in the morning. I was shitting bricks all day thinking I was going to be let go because they’ve been changing a lot the past couple months and letting people go(I worked as a solar installer for a little more context).
So I went into the office today and there was actually about 9 people they called in as well for the meeting. Long story short our positions as installers were “no longer needed” so they were terminating our positions. Not too long ago they were struggling to hire installers because a lot of people were leaving so how is it that they don’t need the positions anymore. They were giving some bullshit corporate excuses as to why the positions weren’t needed but I was too focused on thinking what I’m going to do. I left my job in California (gave them a month notice.) as an installer after a year because I couldn’t make ends meet and had this job lined up in Illinois where I would be better of with my family’s support.
Am I eligible to apply for Unemployment in the state of Illinois even if I only worked for 3 months? I was laid-off/terminated, not fired.