Claflin v. Director, Arkansas Employment Security Department

I dissent from the decision to affirm the Board of Review because I cannot agree that fair-minded persons faced with the evidence in this case could decide that Laurie Claflin voluntarily left her job without good cause connected with the work. The only proof is that Claflin left her job after the employer reduced her work hours to half time, and failed to indicate whether she would ever be returned to full-time duty. She worked the half-time schedule, found other full time employment, and told her foreman that she was quitting to take the full-time position. That was when the foreman told…