I’m a business owner in California. I’m thinking of letting go of one of my employees since I’m not happy with the performance. I would like to understand how we can calculate unemployment benefits we have to pay if the employee does claim unemployment once I let them go. Is there a general rule of thumb or formula that we can use?
For context, this specific employee has been working for me for around 6 months, makes $85K annually, and has around $800/month in company paid insurance benefit.
I think it is this website for CA EDD - https://edd.ca.gov/en/Unemployment/UI-Calculator
It is from the perspective of an employee to see how much they will receive in unemployment benefits. But it does not give an accurate picture for an employer because it does not take into account how long the employee has been employed with a specific employer.
For instance, I have had this employee only for 7 months now and the website says I have to pay $450 per week in unemployment benefits. While this is accurate for the employee it is not accurate for a specific employe is clearly inaccurate since she has only been in the business for 7 months. Maybe all of the prior employers combined would give the employee $450/week in unemployment benefits.
It still makes me wonder where/how I can look up this detail for my business without having to pay an unaffordable per hour fee for an employment/labor lawyer.