Lafferty v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Employment & Training Services

I dissent.

Indiana Code 22-4-15-1 disqualifies an individual from receiving unemployment benefits if he "voluntarily left his employment without good cause in connection with the work." IC 22-4-15-1(@a) (1992 Supp.). However, there is an exception:

An individual shall not be subject to disqualification because of separation from his prior employment if he left to accept with another employer previously secured permanent full-time work which offered reasonable expectation of betterment of wages or working conditions and thereafter was employed on said job for not less than ten (10) weeks.

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