We need a different unemployment system than the one we have. We need criteria for unpaid leave but makes you eligible for unemployment benefits. Then when the issue is resolved the employees continue as usual with no laps in work history or anything else. This is also the reason one of the biggest thing we need to do to fix healthcare costs is to detach it from employment (this was the case pre WW2). This would allow people to accrue money in the HSA over time and still be able to pay premiums during an unemployment window.