u/jamiejfp

[Pennsylvania] Do i have a claim, Job hired me under false pretenses

TLDR: can i be accepted for unemployment if job offered me employment for overnight shifts for a few months but employee has yet to come back so i can switch over to daytime shifts. / do i have any other options like medical wise.

Some context to the job.. I had originally applied to be a regular worker at this company but because of my experience they decided to offer me a supervisor role which I had accepted with the guarantee I’d be switched over to daytime while still retaining the supervisor role in around a month.

Reason why position needed to be filled: Both overnight supervisors were away on medical leave, leaving only the daytime supervisors having to work their shifts for the time being until I came by.

After accepting the position I then got an email stating it would now be 2-4 months until the overnight supervisors would return. Which at first was weird but I paid no mind to it since I was still under the assumption that it wouldn’t take longer than a month. I had also informed them early on I had other responsibilities such as school and that it was important that I don’t remain in this overnight position as long because of how demanding school currently is for me.

Current situation: Its now been around 3 months and the 2nd supervisor has yet to come and keeps pushing his come back date further and further. I feel I’ve been very patient with them and I’ve grown tired of having to work these overnight shifts so much so that they’ve been affecting my productivity/ grades in class and because I’m so exhausted all the time I can barely focus and don’t get much sleep throughout the week. Now I’ve spoken to them already about any solutions to this and every answer is just basically that I’m stuck in the overnight role until the dudes back or I can give up the position and work as a regular worker which to me is something I really would like to avoid doing since the day would be docked by a lot. i’m not given much of an option besides stay and deal with it or choose to be demoted.

Unemployment question: I’m to the point where I’d rather quit and receive unemployment so I can focus completely on school while still gathering some kind of income for a bit until I graduate. Do I have any ground to leave and try to report for unemployment due to I guess false pretenses? Or possibly anything else i can report or am I just going to be denied.. I really need some help with this because it’s really getting to me and I’d really appreciate the help.

keep in mind i’ve been having to leave for medical reasons as well. which i haven’t communicated to them due to the fact that they don’t accept excuse notes so i didn’t see the point of even brining it up in the first place but i have a paper trail if needed.

If you have any questions so you can answer my question more thoroughly I’ll try to answer as detailed as I can.

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u/jamiejfp — 2 days ago