Beckingham v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development

SULLIVAN, Justice.

The Review Board of the Department of Workforce Development denied Lisa M. Beckingham unemployment benefits for violating her employer's no-fault attendance rule. In accordance with another case we decide today, Giovanoni v. Rev. Bd. of Ind. Dep't of Workforce Dev., 927 N.E.2d 906 (Ind.2010), we hold that such a rule does not obviate the statutory mandate to analyze whether, under the totality of the cireumstances, the employee's absenteeism is the result of cireumstances beyond that employee's control.

*914Background

Beckingham was a purchasing agent employed from August, 1997,…