Unemployment Benefits – Misconduct 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, July 20, 2009
By Minnesota Lawyer
Tags: Unemployment Benefits

Where claimant, a retail store employee, admitted that she violated company policy by handling her own photoprocessing order and underpricing her order, we conclude that claimant committed misconduct and that the single-incident exception does not apply, even though the employee did not complete her purchase, because the employer’s mistrust of claimant had a significant adverse impact on the employer’s ability to assign the essential functions of claimant’s job to her.

Affirmed.