Giovanoni v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Indiana's Unemployment Compensation Act provides "benefits to persons unem*908ployed through no fault of their own. ..." Ind.Code § 22-4-1-1. In this case, an employer's attendance policy subjected an employee to discharge for exceeding the permitted number of absences, whether excused or unexcused. Under the Act as written at the time of the employee's discharge, violation of the attendance policy did not disqualify the employee from unemployment compensation because the employee had been discharged through no fault of his own.

Background

John D. Giovanoni was a pharmacy…