Al-Assi v. Alabama Department of Labor

DONALDSON, Judge.

An employer bears the burden of proving that a former employee is disqualified from receiving unemployment-compensation benefits that the former employee would otherwise normally be entitled to receive. See Ex parte Rogers, 68 So.Sd 773, 780-81 (Ala.2010); Jim Skinner Ford, Inc. v. Davis, 118 So.3d 663, 664 (Ala.Civ.App.2012). Mohammed Al-Assi appeals from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court (“the trial court”) in favor of the Alabama Department of Labor (“ADOL”)1 and Gregg Appliances,- Inc. (“Gregg”), holding that, pursuant to § 25-4-78(2), Ala.Code 1975, he was…