Wills v. Employment Appeal Board

ANDREASEN, Justice.

In Ames v. Employment Appeal Board, 439 N.W.2d 669 (Iowa 1989), we held that employees involuntarily separated from their employment are entitled to unemployment compensation benefits if otherwise qualified to receive them. We rejected an analysis which disqualifies involuntarily separated employees unless the involuntary leaving is attributable to the employer.

Here the Employment Appeal Board concluded that the claimant voluntarily quit her employment because of pregnancy and upon a doctor’s advice that she should not lift more than twenty-five pounds. Because she did not…