An employee with a felony record was not discharged when his employer announced that employees would be subject to background checks and let go if they were felons. Rather, he voluntarily terminated his own employment in anticipation of discharge and ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Unemployment Comp Virginia Circuit Courts

The court denied Plaintiff Gifford Whitehurst’s petition for judicial review of a decision by the Virginia Unemployment Commission that he was disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation. Whitehurst worked at the Chrysler Museum as a security officer. The Museum’s HR manager ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Unemployment Comp Virginia Circuit Courts

The Virginia Employment Commission’s handling of a medical technologist’s proffers of proof that she did not falsify a doctor’s note, and denial of unemployment compensation based on her “misconduct,” are reversed as “arbitrary and capricious” by the Fairfax Circuit Court. ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Thomas P. Mann Unemployment Comp Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a carpenter had multiple documented instances of inattentiveness and failure to follow instructions, his negligence did not constitute “misconduct” that would bar him from receiving unemployment compensation under Va. Code § 60.2-618, and the Roanoke City Circuit Court affirms ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford R. Weckstein Unemployment Comp Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals upholds denial of unemployment benefits due to claimant’s discharge for misconduct; the data entry specialist for a temp agency billed the client for 11 hours of work from his home even though his access code to ...

Tagged with: Judge John M. Tran Unemployment Comp Virginia Court of Appeals

An equipment operator who promptly informed his foreman that his perforated ulcer required emergency surgery, and who, after surgery, continued to inform employer that he was available for light duty, left work voluntarily and with good cause when employer did ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Unemployment Comp Virginia Circuit Courts

An employee who had been subjected to multiple performance improvement plans and who ultimately asked her employer to accelerate her latest PIP and terminate her voluntarily left her employment without good cause, and the Court of Appeals upholds denial of ...

Tagged with: Justice Teresa M. Chafin Unemployment Comp Virginia Court of Appeals

A claimant denied unemployment benefits on employer’s statement that claimant failed to report for work and never again contacted employer has his case remanded by the Norfolk Circuit Court to the Virginia Employment Commission for further review; the Appeals Examiner ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Unemployment Comp Virginia Circuit Courts