Smith v. Spence & Spence

COZORT, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether an employee’s delinquency in her personal financial affairs which caused a detrimental effect on her employer’s relationship with his clients who were creditors of the employee constitutes “substantial fault on the employee’s part connected with her work not rising to the level of misconduct” for which the employee may be terminated. We hold the conduct of the secretary does rise to the level of substantial fault, and we affirm the superior court’s Judg*637ment upholding the Decision of the Employment Security Commission of North…