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	<title>Virginia Lawyers Weekly &#187; Unemployment Comp</title>
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		<title>Pro Se Must Comply With Rules&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/03/09/pro-se-must-comply-with-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a circuit court determination finding claimant ineligible for unemployment compensation benefits:  the totality of claimant’s noncompliance with the rules is significant, he failed to remedy defects after notice from the court and presents no argument challenging the circuit court ruling that he failed to comply with mandatory statutory requirements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Firing Not Reason to Quit&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/02/02/fear-of-firing-not-reason-to-quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a truck dispatcher said she did not receive sufficient training and she quit her job because she feared she would be fired, her apprehension was not good cause to leave her job, and the Court of Appeals affirms the denial of unemployment compensation. The Virginia Employment Commission found claimant’s reason for quitting was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitness Club Employee Fired for No ‘Fight Night’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/12/13/fitness-club-employee-fired-for-no-%e2%80%98fight-night%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Randy I. Bellows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fairfax Circuit Court says an employee terminated from his employment at a fitness club is barred by misconduct from collecting unemployment compensation through the Virginia Employment Commission, as he was terminated for his failure to plan and promote a “fight night” charity event at the club. The issue here is whether there is sufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welfare Fraud Conviction is Workplace ‘Misconduct’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/12/01/welfare-fraud-conviction-is-workplace-%e2%80%98misconduct%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert J. Humphreys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a Wal-Mart merchandising supervisor had never been disciplined on the job and self-reported her guilty plea to felony charges of welfare fraud, her criminal conduct outside work constituted workplace misconduct that bars her from receiving unemployment compensation, the Court of Appeals says. Claimant does not dispute the validity of Wal-Mart’s decision to terminate her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MS, job stress not ‘good cause’ to quit&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/03/14/ms-job-stress-not-%e2%80%98good-cause%e2%80%99-to-quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Clifford R. Weckstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roanoke Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Circuit Courts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although claimant made the “perfectly understandable decision,” as a single mother with no family in Virginia, suffering from MS, to return to Michigan where she had family and a support network, the Virginia Employment Commission committed no error of law in deciding claimant did not show good cause for her voluntary resignation, and a Roanoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Chain-of-Custody Issue for Drug-Test Firing&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/02/23/no-chain-of-custody-issue-for-drug-test-firing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge D. Arthur Kelsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An employee fired after she tested positive for marijuana is barred from receiving unemployment benefits under Va. Code Sec. 60.2-618(2)(b)(1) even though the document showing the chain of custody for the employee’s random drug test was submitted after the telephonic hearing on her claim; the Court of Appeals upholds the circuit court decision. The employer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Comp &#8211; Misconduct &#8211; Restaurant Inspections&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/12/30/unemployment-comp-misconduct-restaurant-inspections/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/12/30/unemployment-comp-misconduct-restaurant-inspections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Bruce D. White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A manager of a Pizza Hut who was terminated after his restaurant repeatedly failed health inspections cannot collect unemployment benefits as his termination resulted from misconduct, says a Fairfax Circuit Court. Claimant, despite knowledge that additional inspections were scheduled after earlier citations, and certain knowledge that his job was in jeopardy from previous failures to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Comp &#8211; Misconduct &#8211; Rule 5A:8&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/09/02/unemployment-comp-misconduct-rule-5a8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Per Curiam Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A university employee who was denied unemployment comp because he had been discharged due to misconduct has not complied with appellate procedural rules and the Court of Appeals cannot consider the nine questions he presents asserting that his actions did not constitute misconduct and the standards of conduct were misused and misapplied. Appellant has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Comp &#8211; Medical Receptionist &#8211; Insubordination &#8211; Patient Departures&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/09/01/unemployment-comp-medical-receptionist-insubordination-patient-departures/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/09/01/unemployment-comp-medical-receptionist-insubordination-patient-departures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roanoke County Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A medical receptionist whose insubordination and discourteous conduct caused at least three patients of the medical practice to take their business elsewhere is not entitled to unemployment compensation because he was discharged due to misconduct, in this Roanoke County Circuit Court case. Employer’s testimony was that petitioner, in spite of repeated verbal counseling by his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refusal to sign ‘unreasonable’ car policy does not bar unemployment benefits&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/03/24/refusal-to-sign-car-policy-%e2%80%98unreasonable%e2%80%99-salesman-wins-unemployment-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert P. Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Comp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A company sales director who was fired because he refused to sign his employer’s policy on the use of company cars can collect unemployment benefits. The Virginia Court of Appeals reversed a decision for the employer, saying the employee’s refusal to sign the broadly worded policy was not misconduct that barred benefits. The employer’s policy [...]]]></description>
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