Quick v. Department of Labor

Johnson, J.,

¶ 10. dissenting. How is it that an employee whose employer never *588filed a first report of injury, in violation of workers’ compensation laws, and whose employer threatened the employee with an illegal polygraph because the employer doubted the employee’s credibility, is not entitled to leave her job for good cause? In upholding the Board’s decision in this case, the majority opinion denies to this employee the protection of yet another Vermont law enacted for the protection of workers — the unemployment compensation system — a law that is to be liberally construed.

¶ 11. The…