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Utah Unemployment Case Law

These cases are from the Utah Judicial Server

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Ahlquist: He failed to report that he got a job. He just went on collecting unemployment.
Arrow: The employer gave her an ultimatum: quit and take severance or find another job. She took the severance. Because it was an ultimatum, this was a discharge, and not a voluntary quit.
Autoliv: Several employees used the company email to send offensive personal messages and videos.
Autoliv: He failed his drug test and was fired. His lawyer filed his appeal too late.
Autoliv: Fired for an adulterated urine sample given for a drug test.
Brown: She quit because she didn't like the insurance.
Caldwell: She handled the money the wrong way. She points out that everyone else did it that way too. But she still did it the wrong way.
Chieco: He files an appeal to the court, but does not say why.
Duong: She would not do as she was told.
Eagala: Documents to be introduced at the hearing must be faxxed, mailed, or delivered. They emailed insstead.
Eichert: Instead of working half weeks, a part time worker worked alternating weeks, so that he could collect unemployment for the weeks he wasn't working. The state calls that fraud.
Ekshteyn: A tornado tore him up and put him out of work. He could have collected unemployment, but didn't know about it. By the time he filed, it was too late.
Esplin: Collected unemployment while employed. Now he has to pay it back.
Florence: Her Social Security check, paid because she has a disability, is deducted from her unemployment benefits.
Galley: She quit to move to Wyoming to be with her husband and son. This may be good cause to quit, but it does not entitle her to unemployment in Utah.
Glazier's Foodtown: The employer was not allowed to cross examine witnesses at the hearing.
Griffiths: A worker at the dump picked stuff out of the trash, did not wear his goggles, and took off early for lunch.
Harley Davidson: Several procedural errors must be overcome on the way to court appeal.
Hurtado: He walked off the job and didn't come back. Claims he was fired because the employer did not call him at home.
Jarman: Pled guilty to unemployment compensation fraud. Got one year, suspended for probation. Failed a drug test = violated probation = goes to jail.
Manning: She continued to collect unemployment even after she started a new job.
Mays: He did not show for work. He does not think he should be fired for that.
McEntire: Fails to qualify for NAFTA benefits because he did not promptly enroll in training.
McGraw: Failed a random drug test.
Mitchell: An obscene tirade gets him fired.
Murray: She says she appealed three weeks late because she was moving and going through a divorce. But she does not show how any of this affected her appeal.
NAC: Instead of mailing or faxxing her appeal, she brought it to the Employment Dept. in person. They lost it. She brought another. They lost it. She brought a third. By now she was past the deadline.
Pimentel: Fired for attendance problems.
Prosper: An employer need not prove the truth of customer complaints in order to prove misconduct; it need only prove that complaints were received.
PSM: An interesting case: An employer suddenly terminated its contract with an employee leasing company, and signed up with a second leasing company. Then they laid off the workers. The state wanted to charge the benefits against the first leasing company's account. This court says no.
Rael: It appears that a truck driver delivered her load to Salt Lake City rather than its destination in Denver, because she was too upset to drive safely.
Saccomani: Unhappy at work. When he received a reprimand, he quit.
Santistevan: Filed her appeal too late. Her excuses are flimsy.
Schindler: He does not have enough wages in Utah to claim unemployment. And the state refuses to include the wages he made in New York before coming to Utah.
Serdar: She appealed one day late. Someone granted her an extension to file late; but the law includes not authority for granting an extension.
Sleater: In a case where the employer says one thing and the claimant says another, the Appeals Board decides which one to believe.
Snow: She did not show. She did not call.
SOS Staffing: Several temp workers did not report for new assignments; therefore, they are not eligible for unemployment.
Spiers: An apartment manager's free rent is not included as wages when calculating the amount of his benefit.
Whipple: Insubordinate because she refused to listen to her employer rebuke her for her tardiness.
Williams: Failed to report her part-time earnings while collecting unemployment.