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CCH® UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE — 4/18/14

Temp employee voluntarily left work even though she later returned to job with same employer

The court affirmed a decision that denied benefits to a claimant, who voluntarily left work without good cause attributable to her employer at the time. The claimant was working at an animal hospital as assigned by a temporary staffing agency. She then went on medical leave. When she was ready to return to work, she did so as a direct hire of the animal hospital, with part-time hours, until she was laid off. The claimant argued that the temporary staffing agency and the animal hospital should be considered “joint employers” since she performed the same work before and after her direct hire at the animal hospital and, thus, could not have “left” her prior employment. However, the court held that work is inexorably linked to a particular employer or employing unit, and when a relationship ends with a particular employer or employing unit, the “work” necessarily also ends (Janice Logan v. UIA, Mich. Ct. of App., No. 311167, 3/13/2014).