If I’m working 25 hours a week because of slow season at work, who pays for unemployment benefits if I were to apply?

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If I’m working 25 hours a week because of slow season at work, who pays for unemployment benefits if I were to apply?

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Employers notionally fund unemployment insurance by paying a fee / tax to the state for every employee they have. In California, that tax is adjusted according to how many employees are fired from a company – lots of fires = higher taxes to pay for them. In theory. In practice, of course, UI is backed up by the state’s general fund. After all, depending on bad companies to fund it has no chance of working.