Courtney v. Employment Security Department

¶1 Heather Courtney appeals the Washington Employment Security Department commissioner’s decision to deny her unemployment benefits. She argues that she was entitled to receive unemployment benefits because her employer fired her. We affirm because after she tentatively refused her new manager’s offer of continued employment, Courtney voluntarily and intentionally quit her employment by choosing neither to report to work nor to respond to her new managers, even when informed that her silence was a rejection of their offer.

FACTS

I. Separation from Employment

¶2 Starting in 2007, Heather Courtney…