Amador v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

Is a worker disqualified from collecting unemployment insurance benefits when she has been discharged for wilfully refusing to perform work which she reasonably and in good faith believed would jeopardize the health of others?

I

Nelly Amador appeals from a judgment of the superior court rejecting her petition for a writ of mandate. She sought to compel the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (board) to vacate its ruling that she was ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits because she had been discharged for “misconduct.” (Unemp. Ins. Code, § 1256.0.1)

The San Mateo…