California Unemployment Insurance Code Section 1032

If it is ruled under Section 1030 or 1328 that the claimant left the employer`s employ voluntarily and without good cause, or left under one of the following circumstances, benefits paid to the claimant subsequent to the termination of employment that are based upon wages earned from the employer prior to the date of the termination of employment shall not be charged to the account of the employer, except as provided by Section 1026, unless the employer failed to furnish the information specified in Section 1030 within the time limit prescribed in that section or unless that ruling is reversed by a reconsidered ruling: (a) The claimant was discharged by reason of misconduct connected with his or her work. (b) The claimant was a student employed on a temporary basis and whose employment began within, and ended with his or her leaving to return to school at the close of, his or her vacation period. (c) The claimant left the employer`s employ to accompany his or her spouse or domestic partner to or join her or him at a place from which it is impractical to commute to the employment, to which a transfer of the claimant by the employer is not available. (d) The claimant left the employer`s employ to protect his or her children or himself or herself from domestic violence abuse. (e) The claimant left the employer`s employ to take a substantially better job. (f) The claimant`s discharge or quitting from his or her most recent employer was the result of an irresistible compulsion to use or consume intoxicants including alcoholic beverages. For purposes of this section and Section 1030 spouse includes a person to whom marriage is imminent.