In MO, can subcontractors draw unemployment if they are terminated. Will the benefits come from previous jobs?

My friend worked for over two years, in a factory making fairly good money, but afterwards, left the job to start working as a subcontractor for Charter Communications. As a subcontractor, he is basically self-employed lacking any benefits. Now, two months in, he has been terminated due to calling stale from work for two days last week (he was advised to do so by a doctor that he saw within the ER). He did so because he acquired an injury (off the job) that was interfering with his propensity to climb ladders and crawl through attics.

Anyways, can a subcontractor, self-employed person, draw unemployment compensation? If not through the cable company, could he draw the benefits from his previous job, like the one he left two months ago? Technically, it will be written that he quit from that job (the factory job).

I construe I read somewhere that you can draw benefits from a previous job if you don't have enough money remunerated in with your current job. But would he qualify as a subcontractor?

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he might enjoy a claim; but he's dealing with workman';s comp and a termination situation that would probably disqualify him anyway.

Tell him to apply; just don't spend the checks for a month or so just surrounded by case

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