What constitutes job abandonment?
If you have told her to do something that is within the confines of the job–i.e. do paperwork for a leave which she has requested–and she is failing to do so, you could terminate her for cause, such as for insubordination or failure to do her duties. You don’t have to terminate her cause– but there would be reasonable grounds for it. If you do terminate her for cause, she would not receive UI unless she appealed the denial and won on appeal (grounds on which she might win: if she can show that the failure was due to some event outside her control, such as being too ill to respond). If terminate her but not for cause–which is your right; absent a contract to the contrary, any employee can be terminated at any time, for any reason–then she would in fact be eligible for unempoyment compensation or insurance.
