West v. Baldor Electric Co.

KURT S. ODENWALD, Presiding Judge.

Introduction

The issue presented by this appeal is whether an employee’s conduct of intentionally leaving his assigned work station while on the clock and subsequently engaging in conduct which included rubbing and kissing the naked breasts of a fellow employee and reaching down into her pants, all on company time and on the company’s premises, is conduct that disqualifies the employee from unemployment benefits. Calvin West, Jr. (West) appeals from the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (the Commission), which denied him unemployment…