Jenkins v. Department of Employment Security

This is an appeal from a decision of the Vermont Employment Security Board disqualifying the claimant-appellant from partial unemployment compensation benefits for a period of three consecutive weeks due to her failure to satisfy the Board’s interpretation of the 21 V.S.A. § 1343(a)(3) “available for work” requirement, for a portion of the total part-time work offered her in each of those weeks. Though the questions certified for our review pursuant to V.R.A.P. 13(d) are framed exclusively in terms of evidentiary support for the Board’s ruling, the real issue at stake here involves the…