Hess v. Oregon Employment Division

The issue presented in both of these unemployment compensation appeals is the same: Did the Employment Appeals Board (EAB) err in ruling that petitioners were disqualified under ORS 657.176(2)(c) from receiving benefits because of having "voluntarily left work without good cause”?

The essential facts are as follows: Petitioners had been employed for sometime as salespersons in the major appliance department of respondent’s Salem store. Petitioners were married on February 15,1976, and, as store policy prohibits a married couple from working in the same department, petitioners were asked to…