Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

JONES, Judge.

Safeway Stores, Inc., employer, seeks review of an order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) which awarded unemployment compensation benefits to Amos E. Varos, claimant. We affirm.

Employer terminated claimant, a meat-cutter, for alcohol usage prohibited by employer’s work rules. Claimant applied for unemployment benefits. The Panel found that claimant’s alcohol usage violated employer’s work rule. However, the Panel further found claimant had been performing his work with no apparent difficulty on the day in question and that the evidence did not show that claimant…